Oral QuestionDepartment of Health and Social Care

What steps he is taking to improve cancer (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment.

Tabled: 23 October 2019Answered: 29 October 2019

Asked by

Mike Wood

ConservativeKingswinford and South Staffordshire

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Answer from Hansard

Jonathan Reynolds

I thank the hon. Member for his interest in this incredibly important issue and the work, which he will be aware of, that ensured that we got to this point. I think this is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history, and the moves to provide some form of redress are extremely important. We have moved at pace to put the scheme in place. We were able to do so because of the legislation we got through in the wash-up at the end of the last Parliament. The hon. Member will have heard what I said about the letters that we got out to get that information to people. [ Interruption. ] What was that? We will take that up offline. I welcome his interest and will continue to work with him on it.