Question follow-through · 85019
Genetics: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued (a) a national strategy and (b) guidance for NHS trusts on genetic disorders linked to consanguinity.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 33 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued (a) a national strategy and (b) guidance for NHS trusts on genetic disorders linked to consanguinity.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
Genomic testing is delivered through the NHS Genomic Medicine Service and guided by the National Genomic Test Directory, which outlines the eligibility criteria for genomic testing based on specific clinical indications. These eligibility criteria support...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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