Genetics: Preventive Medicine
Commons · Question 97077 · Tabled 3 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 9 Dec 2025
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Asked by 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
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Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 9 Dec 2025
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...