Question follow-through · 5594

Health: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that health checks are available at all stages of life.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 12 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 8 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

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Recorded timeline

12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that health checks are available at all stages of life.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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8 Oct 2024
Answer published
Health checks throughout all stages of life are important, from ensuring the best start in life, through five health and development reviews before a child reaches two and a half years old, to 12 screening programmes from birth through to adulthood that h...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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