Question follow-through · 62181
DNA: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regulatory standards for the marketing of consumer DNA testing kits.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regulatory standards for the marketing of consumer DNA testing kits.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is aware that there are a number of DNA test kits on the market. The majority claim to provide information on ancestry, and in general these would not be regarded as medical devices.However, those th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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