Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 97077

Genetics: Preventive Medicine

Tabled: 3 December 2025

Answered: 9 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of progress against the commitment in the NHS 10 Year Plan for Health to launch a new large-scale study to sequence the genomes of 150,000 adults and assess how g

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed

The 10-Year Health Plan for England committed to launching a large-scale study, led by Genomics England, to sequence 150,000 adult genomes and assess how genomics can support routine preventive care. Work is now underway to design the study, develop scien...

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