Question follow-through · 66776
Screening and Vaccination: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) vaccination and (b) screening rates in areas with high health disparities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) vaccination and (b) screening rates in areas with high health disparities.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department is working with NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to encourage high uptake of all immunisation and screening programmes, including in areas where coverage has historically been low.The National Health Service is building...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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