Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to expand testing for prostate cancer.

The current recommendation is that a population screening programme for prostate cancer should be not introduced. This is because the screening test of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not accurate enough to detect prostate cancer that needs treatment. However, there is a National Health Service prostate cancer risk management programme that provides general practitioners and primary care professionals with information to help asymptomatic men over the age of 50 years old who ask about PSA testing for prostate cancer. The UK National Screening Committee is due to review the evidence to screen for prostate cancer in 2023/24.