Ms Averil Power:

The ambition in the national cancer strategy was that bowel screening would be expanded to people aged between 55 and 74. That has not happened. The age has been brought down to 59, but we are still way off 55. As Ms Harte said, the ambition was also that the target for uptake would be 60% within that age cohort. That target has since been revised, having not been met, to 45% instead, so we are significantly behind in bowel screening and it is a crucial programme as regards picking up one of our deadliest cancers.