Question follow-through · 278
Community Diagnostic Centres: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Community Diagnostics Centres receive funding and resources to keep equipment and facilities up to date.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Community Diagnostics Centres receive funding and resources to keep equipment and facilities up to date.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
In April 2026, the Government announced our plan to open four new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) during 2026/27. We also announced a further 32 centres, which will be expanded and improved with new scanning equipment, outpatient clinic space and addi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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