Question follow-through · 23318
Oral Cancer and Throat Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to diagnose (a) mouth and (b) throat cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to diagnose (a) mouth and (b) throat cancer.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
No specific assessment has been made on the adequacy of mouth and throat cancer diagnosis waiting times.However, it is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer as early and quickly as possible, to treat it fa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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