Question follow-through · 34482

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including a dedicated chapter within the National Cancer Plan on children and young people.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
10 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including a dedicated chapter within the National Cancer Plan on children and young people.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The structure of the National Cancer Plan document will be decided in due course. However, the plan will address the unique experiences of children and young people with cancer. To support this, on 4 February 2025, we relaunched the Children and Young Peo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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