Clive Jones

Clive Jones

Liberal Democrat — Wokingham

Speaking in the House of Commons on 13 November 2026

Debate

Cancer (Reporting and Strategy) Bill

Contribution

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. At its heart, the Bill is about a simple principle: if the Government make commitments on cancer, Parliament and the public should be able to assess whether those commitments are being delivered. Cancer affects almost every family in this country. Nearly one in two people will receive a cancer diagnosis during their lifetime, and the number of cases continues to rise. More than 403,000 people are now diagnosed with cancer each year in the UK—that is around 1,100 diagnoses every day, or one person every 80 seconds. For those people and the families who support them, cancer policy is not an abstract debate; it is about whether diagnoses are made early enough, whether treatment starts quickly enough, whether people survive, and whether they can live well after cancer.

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