Question follow-through · 2956
Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS eligibility criteria for BRCA1 genetic testing for individuals with a family history of (a) breast and (b) ovarian cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS eligibility criteria for BRCA1 genetic testing for individuals with a family history of (a) breast and (b) ovarian cancer.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2026
Answer published
The current eligibility criteria for genetic testing are set out in the NHS National Genomic Test Directory. The aim is to offer individuals at higher risk of developing cancer (those with pathogenic variants in their genes) clinical pathways to support t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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