Question follow-through · 43686
Lung Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34747, whether it remains his Department's policy to reach full rollout of lung cancer screening to the eligible population by 2029.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34747, whether it remains his Department's policy to reach full rollout of lung cancer screening to the eligible population by 2029.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is taking crucial steps to improve cancer outcomes across England, including for lung cancer. The NHS Lung Screening Cancer Programme is designed to catch more cancers earlier when they are more treatable, with the hope of savi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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