Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which of the 10 most prevalent forms of cancer for adults (a) women and (b) men have a national screening programme.

The UK National Screening Committee advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries on all aspects of population screening, and supports implementation. It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended. NHS England mandates the NHS to provide 11 national population-based screening programmes.

There are three adult national cancer screening programmes: breast cancer and cervical cancer screening for women and bowel cancer screening for both men and women.

According to research conducted by Cancer Research UK, both bowel and breast cancer are among the 10 most prevalent forms of cancers for adults.