Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 99594

Breast Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 12 December 2025

Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Liz Jarvis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor the success of the NHS scheme to identify breast cancer risk by testing for the BRCA gene.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The NHS Genomic Medicine Service provides a national genomics unit which is responsible for strategic oversight, direction, commissioning and funding, and performance monitoring of genomics service.The National Health Service is ensuring that people have ...

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