Question follow-through · 12436
Smoking: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will help ensure that smoking cessation is offered as an opt-out, co-located service for lung screening appointments.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 4 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 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will help ensure that smoking cessation is offered as an opt-out, co-located service for lung screening appointments.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
The NHS Lung Cancer Screening programme’s standard protocol includes a mandatory referral to smoking cessation services for all current smokers invited to the programme.The Government is providing £70 million of additional funding this year to support loc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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