| Heading: |
Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1809776 |
| UIN: |
57802 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5168 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Adam Jogee
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Adam Jogee
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will support the (a) rollout and (b) expansion of testing for (i) hepatitis B, (ii) hepatitis C, (iii) HIV, (iv) other precursor conditions to less survivable cancers and (v) NHS |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
Testing for hepatitis B, C, and HIV is available through a variety of routes including, primary care, sexual health services and targeted testing to reach groups most at risk of infections. NHS England’s opt-out testing programme operates at several emerg... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |