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Cancer: Screening

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 75351, tabled on 16 July 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for updating the National Genomic Test Directory for 2020-21 for genomic tests commissioned by the NHS in England for cancer.

Answered on

2 September 2020

Due to the impact of COVID-19, the publication of the National Genomic Test Directory for 2020/21 has been delayed. NHS England and NHS Improvement are establishing the timescale for the publication of the updated National Genomic Test Directory for 2020/21 in line with national COVID-19 recovery activity. It is expected that the National Genomic Test Directory for 2020/21 will be published by the end of September.