Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 54624

Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 19 June 2025

Question

Sir Andrew Mitchell

ConservativeSutton Coldfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce waiting times for cancer screening and testing in Sutton Coldfield constituency.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Government understands that more needs to be done to reduce waiting times for cancer patients. To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week during our first year in Government, as the first step to e...

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