Question follow-through · 22310
Breast Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing consistent data on (a) recurrence and (b) longer-term survival rates for secondary breast cancer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 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
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing consistent data on (a) recurrence and (b) longer-term survival rates for secondary breast cancer.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The National Cancer Plan for England, published in February this year, committed to define and count recurrent cancers, starting with breast cancer. The National Disease Registration Service is working towards publishing a baseline figure of metastatic br...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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