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Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a national multi-cancer case finding programme to identify individuals at high risk of (a) pancreatic cancer and (b) all other can

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
16 Oct 2025
Answer
28 Oct 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a national multi-cancer case finding programme to identify individuals at high risk of (a) pancreatic cancer and (b) all other can

  2. 16 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England is developing case-finding approaches for less survivable cancers where the evidence supports this, including pancreatic cancer.This work includes the development of a public-facing Family History Checker in partnership with Pancreatic Cancer ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 36 of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Hospitals: Admissions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drugs: South East

31 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of lactose-free medication in the South East.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Olanzapine: Berkshire

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