Question follow-through · 7086
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a a long-term cancer strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Oct 2024 · 7 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
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a a long-term cancer strategy.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Oct 2024
Answer published
Lord Darzi’s report has set out the scale of the challenges we face in fixing the National Health Service, and the need to improve cancer waiting time performance and cancer survival. In particular, he has highlighted the need to improve the number of pat...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospices: Wokingham
10 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of hospice funding on people's experience of death and dying in Wokingham.
Hospices: Wokingham
14 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to hospices in Wokingham.
Breast Cancer: Nurses
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that people with triple negative breast cancer have access to a clinical nurse specialist at the point of diagnosis.
Breast Cancer: Nurses
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there are sufficient breast cancer clinical nurse specialists.
Breast Cancer: Genetics
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to test people diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer for the BRCA gene mutation.
Breast Cancer: Genetics
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that people diagnosed with (a) triple negative breast cancer and (b) the BRCA gene mutation are offered genetic counselling.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Sanitary Products
8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing (a) free and (b) reduced-price sanitary products for women with PCOS and similar conditions.
Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis
8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the proportion of bowel cancers diagnosed at each stage in the last five years.
Bowel Cancer: Thames Valley
8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to encourage earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer in the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire Integrated Care Board region.
Prostate Cancer: Screening
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the national prostate cancer screening programme.
Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early diagnosis for prostate cancer.