Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 54624 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Sir Andrew Mitchell
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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 19 Jun 2025
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...