Question follow-through · 123086
Breast Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Cancer Plan, what progress his Department has made on defining and counting recurrent breast cancers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 8 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
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Cancer Plan, what progress his Department has made on defining and counting recurrent breast cancers.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
Through the National Disease Registration Service’s Get Data Out programme, we will expand the data available to the public and researchers by publishing increased information on incidence, routes to diagnosis, treatments, and survival. We will use the Ge...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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