<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 15 June 2016.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 2:30, 15 June 2016

I agree with you that all I’ve heard about the test is that it’s deeply unpleasant. However, test or having cancer, it’s a self-evident choice and I will do anything to support you to try and get this message out to people that they should be doing this. Because bowel, lung, prostate and breast cancers account for over 50 per cent of diagnoses in Wales. As you yourself said earlier, the annual number of cancer cases continues to rise. The target of 95 per cent for newly diagnosed cancer patients referred via the urgent route to begin treatment within 62 days of referral has not been met since 2008. So, how will you, Minister, seek to address these areas, when you draw up your new cancer delivery plan, which is scheduled for later this year? And, given that Welsh Government struggled to deliver on the previous plan, how can we have confidence that you will draw up and rigorously and successfully implement a new plan?