Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 64262

Cancer: Statistics

Tabled: 1 July 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025
Named Day

Question

John Milne

Liberal DemocratHorsham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 2013 mandate to accurately collect and collate data on cancer recurrence is being fully implemented.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department is committed to ensuring that data on cancer is complete and of sufficiently high quality. The National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) collects recurrence data for non-primary cancers via data submissions as part of the Cancer Outcomes...

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