Question follow-through · 9535

Motor Neurone Disease: Aldesleukin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making Proleukin available for motor neurone disease patients on the NHS.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 21 Oct 2024
Answer: 22 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making Proleukin available for motor neurone disease patients on the NHS.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
We have made no assessment. It is critical that medicines used in the United Kingdom are safe and effective and as such, medicines cannot be marketed in the UK without a marketing authorisation. These are granted by the Medicines and Healthcare products R...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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