Question follow-through · 34205
Rare Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to meet priority four of the policy paper entitled The UK Rare Diseases Framework, published on 9 January 2021.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to meet priority four of the policy paper entitled The UK Rare Diseases Framework, published on 9 January 2021.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases. The UK Rare Diseases Framework sets out four priorities collaboratively developed with the rare disease community, which includes priority four on improving access to s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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