| Heading: |
Breast Cancer: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1818403 |
| UIN: |
64229 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5329 |
| Asking Member display name: |
John Milne
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
John Milne
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide routine access to circulating tumour DNA blood tests to support the (a) detection and (b) treatment of breast cancer. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-07-07 |
| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department remains committed to improving faster and earlier detection of breast cancer and will work to ensure that patients have timely access to lifesaving, innovative treatments. We have now exceeded our pledge to deliver an extra two million oper... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |