BOWEL CANCER SCREENING

Early day motion 1951, tabled 30 March 2006 by James Clappison (Conservative). Signed by 41 members.

That this House notes the criticism made by Cancer Research UK of the Government's delay in establishing a new bowel cancer screening programme from April 2006 as promised in the Health White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Cancer Services; further notes the comment made by the Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK Professor Alex Markham, `that to claim the programme is going ahead as planned is a distortion of the truth'; further notes the vital importance of an early diagnosis of bowel cancer and that in the screening pilot established in Rugby 217 people have been diagnosed with bowel cancer; and urges the Government to institute a bowel cancer screening programme without further delay as a first step towards enabling this country to catch up with best practice in North America and Western Europe.

Signatures by party: Conservative 19, Liberal Democrat 7, DUP 6, Labour 6, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, UUP 1.