Question follow-through · 69937
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will expand innovation in cancer screening to ensure people from deprived areas are encouraged to participate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Health and care
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- Fertility: Medical Treatments · 10 Oct 2025
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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
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will expand innovation in cancer screening to ensure people from deprived areas are encouraged to participate.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2025
Answer published
The National Cancer Plan will have patients at its heart and will cover the entirety of the cancer pathway, from referral and diagnosis to treatment and ongoing care, as well as prevention, research, and innovation. It will seek to improve every aspect of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Cancer: Health Services
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Artificial Insemination: LGBT+ People
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Fertility: Medical Treatments
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has set a national timeline for equal access to NHS-funded fertility treatment.
Fertility: Medical Treatments
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Obesity: Drugs
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure that patients taking weight loss medication have equitable access to community-based (a) weight management and (b) lifestyle support services.
Cancer: Diagnosis
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage research into detection (a) tools and (b) tests for the early detection of (i) pancreatic and (ii) other less survivable cancers.
Cancer
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Heart Diseases: North West
17 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates in the North West.
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Cancer: Research
20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of funding allocated by his Department for research and innovation for (a) less survivable and (b) other cancers.
Palliative Care
23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.