Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will review the role of age and family history in urgent referral criteria for patients presenting with possible symptoms of breast cancer.

The Department has made no such assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence keeps all its guidance under review and its guideline on the recognition and referral of suspected cancer was updated in April 2026. There are no current plans for a further update of the guideline, including a review of the age or family history criteria for urgent investigations.