Written questions

Cancer: Preventive Medicine

Commons · Question 26658 · Tabled 27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to include cancer prevention within the National Cancer Plan.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 30 Jan 2025

The Government has been clear that there should be a national cancer plan, and we are now in discussions about what form it should take, including the role of prevention in the work to reduce the lives lost to cancer. We will develop and publish the 10-Ye...