Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report by the World Cancer Research Fund, published in October 2026; and what steps he is taking to lower screening age thresholds to catch early-onset cases sooner.

We are guided by the independent scientific advice of the UK National Screening Committee on all screening matters. It is only where there is robust evidence that an offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended, and in those cases, each programme has both an upper and lower age range, within which there is strong scientific evidence that the benefits of screening outweigh the harms.