Question follow-through · 50747
Tuberculosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support public health action to tackle tuberculosis.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support public health action to tackle tuberculosis.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and NHS England’s joint tuberculosis (TB) action plan for England details actions to achieve a 90% reduction in people with TB by 2035 and is aligned with the World Health Organization’s elimination targets. The plan ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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