Question follow-through · 86717
Oral Cancer: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the number of deaths from mouth cancer over the past ten years and (b) the potential role of late diagnosis in these trends.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the number of deaths from mouth cancer over the past ten years and (b) the potential role of late diagnosis in these trends.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
We know that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for patients with mouth cancer. To support earlier and faster cancer diagnosis, we are now delivering additional checks, tests, and scans at 170 community diagnostic centres. As the first step to ensu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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