Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the level of diagnoses of cases of melanoma in Luton North constituency.

We are committed to improving early diagnosis for all cancers, including in Luton, with the diagnoses of melanoma at stage 1 and 2 currently at 89.1%. A recent National Health Service ‘Help us help you’ campaigns addresses the barriers to earlier presentation for all cancer types and the underlying challenges to earlier diagnosis. This campaign was active during March and June 2022 and saw 1600% increases in the numbers of visits to the NHS.UK’s cancer symptoms information.