Question follow-through · 55846
Cancer: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take in the National Cancer plan to improve diagnosis times for children and young people with cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take in the National Cancer plan to improve diagnosis times for children and young people with cancer.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases, including children and young people. To achieve this, the NHS has delivered an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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