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Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the (a) differences between cancer in (i) children and young people under 25 and (ii) older adults and (b) strategic approaches t
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 6 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
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the (a) differences between cancer in (i) children and young people under 25 and (ii) older adults and (b) strategic approaches t
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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2 Dec 2024
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has been clear in his view that there should be a national cancer plan, and we are now in discussions about what form it should take, including how we will account for children and young...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Health Education
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Brain Cancer: Health Services
28 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to include policies on (a) diagnosis, (b) care and treatment and (c) research into brain tumours in the (i) NHS 10-year plan and (ii) cancer strategy.
Colonoscopy: Waiting Lists
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Colonoscopy: Older People
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Bowel Cancer: Screening
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Colonoscopy
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Autism: Health Services
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Cancer: Thames Valley
5 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of cancer in teenagers and young adults in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Integrated Car
Cancer: Thames Valley
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Clinical Trials
5 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on (a) improving the process for clinical trials and (b) ensuring that those trials are more accessible for teenagers and young adults.