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Lung Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the country has access to the national lung cancer screening programme.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
13 Oct 2025
Answer
14 Oct 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the country has access to the national lung cancer screening programme.

  2. 13 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The National Health Service will build on its recent successes, including roll-out of the National Lung Cancer Screening Programme, to diagnose cancer earlier and boost survival rates. Funding for national lung screening is set by NHS England and the time...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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