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Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce waiting times for cancer screening and testing in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
30 May 2025
Target answer date
3 Jun 2025
Answer
19 Jun 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce waiting times for cancer screening and testing in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

  2. 3 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government understands that more needs to be done to reduce waiting times for cancer patients. To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week during our first year in Government, as the first step to e...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Ambulance Services: West Midlands

2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for ambulances in the West Midlands.

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Mental Health Services: West Midlands

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were waiting for treatment from community mental health services in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available.

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Accident and Emergency Departments: West Midlands

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce accident and emergency waiting times in hospitals in the West Midlands.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Sutton Coldfield

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve the capacity of sexual health services in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Endometriosis: West Midlands

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for endometriosis treatment in the West Midlands.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neurodiversity: Diagnosis

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) autism and (b) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessments in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

3 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the time taken to provide treatment for people with an eating disorder.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Respite Care: Sutton Coldfield

8 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to respite care for unpaid carers in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Incontinence: Sutton Coldfield

11 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people with bladder and bowel control conditions in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department of Health and Social Care: Contracts

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of his Department's procurement contracts were awarded to companies in the West Midlands in the 2024-25 financial year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health: Veterans

21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the health outcomes of veterans in the West Midlands.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: West Midlands

4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to NHS trusts to increase (a) crisis support services in the local community (b) mental health inpatient beds in the West Midlands.