Question follow-through · 10518
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse was of cancer care in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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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
22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse was of cancer care in each of the last five years.
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The information is not available in the requested format for cancer care in England. The Department allocated £14 billion to NHS England from 2022/23 to 2024/25 specifically for the National Health Service in England to recover elective and cancer care. T...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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