United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 15067
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies
Introduced
19 November 2024
Last action
25 November 2024 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
25 November 2024
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
19 November 2024
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy.
Source: Commons
25 November 2024
Answer
Work is already underway to assess the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).This is following the UK National Screening Committee’s two-fold recommendation in 2023, to simultaneously develop a new cost-effectiveness...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department of Health and Social Care · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-11-19/15067
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1742749
- uk · wq-1742749 · source updated 25 November 2024