Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with the National Screening Committee to increase the level of prostate cancer screenings.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a screening programme for prostate cancer, as the screening test of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not sufficiently accurate to detect prostate cancer that needs treatment. However, the National Health Service prostate cancer risk management programme provides general practitioners and primary care professionals with information for asymptomatic men aged 50 years old and over. The UK NSC will review the evidence to screen for prostate cancer in 2023.