Question follow-through · 90304
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is planning to introduce targeted measures to tackle the specific challenges for patients with less survivable cancers through the National Cancer Plan.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is planning to introduce targeted measures to tackle the specific challenges for patients with less survivable cancers through the National Cancer Plan.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
Reducing the number of lives lost to cancer is a key aim of the National Cancer Plan, which will be published in the new year. The plan will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for patients with cancer, including less survivable cancer...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Organs: Donors
8 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered organ donors there are, listed by (a) religious and (b) ethnic group.
Human Remains: Inquiries
12 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which recommendations from the Fuller Inquiry he plans to implement; and in what timeline.
Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Diagnosis
15 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to mandate frontline Placenta Accreta Spectrum diagnostic training for relevant maternity clinicians.
Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Diagnosis
15 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the maternity workforce has received Placenta Accreta Spectrum diagnostic training in each of the last five years.
Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Diagnosis
15 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure frontline diagnostic capability for Placenta Accreta Spectrum at every level of maternity care.
Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Diagnosis
15 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of suspected Placenta Accreta Spectrum were (a) recorded antenatally and (b) confirmed at delivery in each of the last five years; and what the rate of missed antenatal diagnosis was
Gender Identity Development Service
24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absence of outcome data on the cohort of young people treated by the Gender Identity Development Service during the period in which referr
Gender Identity Development Service
24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has held discussions with NHS adult gender clinics on cooperation with researchers commissioned to undertake follow-up work on former Gender Identity Development Service patients.
Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will mandate data sharing across NHS trusts and adult gender services to enable a robust, independent longitudinal study consistent with the recommendations of the Cass Review.
Gender Identity Development Service
24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what timetable he has set for commissioning and commencing a tracing and follow-up study of former GIDS patients.
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24 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendation in the Cass Review to undertake a comprehensive tracing and long-term follow-up study of the approximately 9,000 children and you
Department of Health and Social Care: Ethnic Groups
3 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it submitted, including