Question follow-through · 122582
Bowel Cancer: Yoevil
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise public awareness of bowel cancer in Yeovil constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 10 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
20 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise public awareness of bowel cancer in Yeovil constituency.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
NHS England has run national campaigns, most recently in early 2025, to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and to encourage people to see their general practitioner as soon as possible if they notice a change in the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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