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Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent research conducted by Imperial College London entitled Mortality from leading cancers in districts of England from 2002 to 2019: a population-based, spatiotemporal study, published in The Lancet Oncology on 11 December, which found that the risk of dying from cancer in poorer areas of England is more than 70 per cent higher than in wealthier areas; and what is the comparison between England and Northern Ireland.  HL1159

Question HL1159: tabled on 13 December 2023 and due for answer by 29 December 2023

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Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recent research conducted by Imperial College London entitled Mortality from leading cancers in districts of England from 2002 to 2019: a population-based, spatiotemporal study, published in The Lancet Oncology on 11 December, which found that the risk of dying from cancer in poorer areas of England is more than 70 per cent higher than in wealthier areas; and what is the comparison between England and Northern Ireland.  HL1159
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Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
Democratic Unionist Party
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