| Heading: |
Cancer: Mortality Rates |
| Question ID: |
1751097 |
| UIN: |
21021 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4764 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to set a target of reducing overall cancer mortality in the UK by 15% by 2040. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Professor Lord Darzi’s report set out that the United Kingdom has higher mortality from cancer than neighbouring countries, the Nordic countries, and other English-speaking countries, using data published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |