Question follow-through · 65312
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve screening of new born children for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve screening of new born children for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has been working with partners to scope an in-service evaluation of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in real world National Health Services in the United Kingdom. The research brief that will...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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