Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 60801

Cancer: Genomics

Tabled: 17 June 2025
Answered: 25 June 2025

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to fund a single digital tracking system for cancer tissue samples provided for genomic testing, so that that they may be tracked at every point of their journey.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Genomic testing in the National Health Service in England is provided through the NHS Genomic Medicine Service (NHS GMS). A central feature of the NHS GMS is the National Genomic Test Directory. The Test Directory outlines the full range of genomic tests ...

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