questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to offer bowel cancer screening to people aged 50.
answerText: The National Health Service in England has been gradually reducing the age for bowel screening from 60 years old down to 50 years old, since 2021/22. The extension to 50 years old is expected to be completed by 2025.
heading: Bowel Cancer: Screening