| Heading: |
Cancer: Diagnosis |
| Question ID: |
1818868 |
| UIN: |
64434 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4118 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir Julian Smith
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| Asking Member handle: |
JulianSmithuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JulianSmithuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase screening programmes to improve early diagnosis of cancers, in the context of the forthcoming National Cancer Plan. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
Early diagnosis is a key focus of the National Cancer Plan, which will build on the three shifts in care set out in the 10-Year Health Plan to diagnose cancers earlier. Through the 10-Year Health Plan, we will make it easier for people to access cancer sc... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |