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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) to the NHS newborn blood spot screening programme.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
3 Jun 2026
Answer
1 Jul 2026 · 30 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) to the NHS newborn blood spot screening programme.

  2. 3 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Members of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) have agreed that metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) would be a good candidate for the inclusion in a multi-condition in-service evaluation (ISE) within the United Kingdom’s newborn blood spot (NBS) s...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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