Question follow-through · 93697
Screening: Babies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the National Screening Committee and the newborn screening programme appropriately consider rare diseases.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the National Screening Committee and the newborn screening programme appropriately consider rare diseases.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
When assessing the case for newborn screening for rare diseases, as with all other diseases and conditions, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) uses internationally recognised criteria, and a rigorous evidence review and consultation process. It ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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