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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support parents whose children have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
12 Jan 2026
Answer
23 Jan 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support parents whose children have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.

  2. 12 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Planning for a large-scale trial across the National Health Service is underway, where hundreds of thousands of babies will be screened for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from next year to help build the evidence base needed to support a national screening...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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