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Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to involve cancer charities in the delivery and governance of the forthcoming National Cancer Plan.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to involve cancer charities in the delivery and governance of the forthcoming National Cancer Plan.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The National Cancer Plan will build on the shift from hospital to community set out by the 10-Year Health Plan and will seek to foster improved collaboration with the voluntary and community sector to deliver this.Governance mechanisms for monitoring impl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Health Services: Waiting Lists

2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to Indicative Action Plans and the introduction of minimum waiting times on patients with ongoing care needs, including th

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Surgery: Waiting Lists

2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) NHS England has issued guidance to Integrated Care Boards on the use of minimum waiting times for elective care.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Waiting Lists

2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Boards do not (a) implement minimum waiting times and (b) make reductions to Indicative Action Plans in ways that could risk patie

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NHS South Yorkshire: Redundancy Pay

9 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what payments NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board made to its former Chief Executive in connection with his departure in October 2025; and what the amounts were for (a) redundancy and (b) pay

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Integrated Care Boards: Redundancy Pay

9 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many exit payments of £150,000 and more were made by integrated care boards in the 2024-25 financial year.

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Surgery: Waiting Lists

21 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question UIN 82954, answered on 15 January 2026, what activities the £18,818,566 paid by NHS England for validation exercises (April to September 2025) funded; whether tho

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Surgery: Contracts

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s policy is on NHS trusts delivering elective care under block contract arrangements.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Surgery: Contracts

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts are paid for the delivery of elective treatment through block contract arrangements.

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Surgery: Contracts

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of block contract arrangements on elective care performance by NHS trusts.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Surgery: Contracts

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s policy is on managing NHS trusts that are not meeting elective recovery targets where services are delivered under block contract arrangements.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Surgery: Contracts

11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of block contract arrangements on the level of NHS productivity.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Cancer: Health Services

12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National Cancer Plan’s commitment to provide £70 million more in local authority Stop Smoking Services, whether that funding will be provided on an annual basis until 2030.