Question follow-through · 86115

Cancer: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of psycho-oncology provision for teenagers and young adults with cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 28 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2025
Answer: 21 Nov 2025 · 24 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of psycho-oncology provision for teenagers and young adults with cancer.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department is committed to improving outcomes and patient experience for teenagers and young adults with cancer. The Department recognises that cancer in teenagers and young adults is different to cancer in adults and children, and that age-appropriat...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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