Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that health checks are available at all stages of life.

Health checks throughout all stages of life are important, from ensuring the best start in life, through five health and development reviews before a child reaches two and a half years old, to 12 screening programmes from birth through to adulthood that help identify and protect people from a range of diseases, including cancer. In addition, through the NHS Health Check, all eligible people aged 40 to 74 years old are invited to have a cardiovascular disease check every five years. The Government has extended heart health checks to over 130,000 people in their workplaces, to make checks more accessible.