Question follow-through · 69611
Cancer: Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he is making on reducing waiting times for cancer treatment in Fylde.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 43 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
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he is making on reducing waiting times for cancer treatment in Fylde.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2025
Answer published
We will reduce cancer waiting times so that patients are diagnosed and treated faster, including patients in Fylde.We have now exceeded our pledge to deliver an extra two million operations, scans, and appointments, and we have now delivered over three mi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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