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Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to appoint the independent co-chair of the National Cancer Plan implementation board, and what criteria will be used to ensure that the role is independent of government.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 6 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
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to appoint the independent co-chair of the National Cancer Plan implementation board, and what criteria will be used to ensure that the role is independent of government.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2026
Answer published
The National Cancer Plan, published on 4 February 2026, sets out several commitments and ambitions, to be delivered within the next 10 years. The role of the reformed National Cancer Board will be to support and monitor the delivery of the commitments and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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