Overview
- Ashley Dalton informed Prime Minister Keir Starmer that she is making a “reasonable adjustment” by leaving her ministerial post to focus on her health and constituency work.
- Dalton says she is on oral chemotherapy in three‑week cycles and reports her metastatic breast cancer is currently stable.
- She will continue representing West Lancashire in Parliament and says her decision allows her to balance treatment and duties to constituents.
- Last month she presented the government’s National Cancer Plan in the Commons, revealing she had already decided to step down at that time.
- Health secretary Wes Streeting praised her record in office, as Dalton pledged to keep advocating for better outcomes for people living with cancer.