| Heading: |
Cancer: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1765764 |
| UIN: |
HL5042 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4333 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Scriven
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| Asking Member handle: |
Paulscriven
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Paulscriven
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government which cancer networks have been told by commissioners that their funding will be cut next financial year; and what is the percentage cut to their budgets. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Government has committed significant investment to improving cancer care with a focus on reducing waiting times for diagnosis and treatment. This includes approximately £1.5 billion capital funding in 2025/26 for new surgical hubs and diagnostic scann... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |