Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to roll out a national screening programme for prostate cancer.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test, and harms from treatment.

The UK NSC is currently undertaking a new evidence review of prostate cancer screening at both a population level and for targeted high-risk groups such as black men and men with a family history of prostate cancer. We anticipate a public consultation on the findings of this review later this year and a recommendation by the UK NSC in the first quarter of next year.