Question follow-through · 18822
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve health outcomes for people living with COPD.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve health outcomes for people living with COPD.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jul 2026
Answer published
To enable faster diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and earlier access to treatment, access to spirometry tests in community diagnostic centres is growing and will continue to do so as more sites come online.Pulmonary rehabilitation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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