Question follow-through · 900036
Brain Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve treatment for people with a glioblastoma brain tumour.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve treatment for people with a glioblastoma brain tumour.
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
Like so many Hon. members across the House, I dearly miss the late Baroness McDonagh, who was sadly taken from us by glioblastoma. I’m determined to improve overall survival rates and treatment for rarer cancers like these and I met with officials and lea...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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