Written questions

Cancer: Statistics

Commons · Question 64262 · Tabled 1 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 8 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by John Milne

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

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 8 Jul 2025

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...