Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of offering prostate cancer screening to men considered to be at high risk on (a) NHS costs and (b) health outcomes.

The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee. The committee has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate cancer screening programme. The work will include costs and health outcomes. This includes targeted approaches to high risk groups and an offer to all men defined by age. The committee expects to receive the report later this year.