Question follow-through · 59659
Multiple Sclerosis: Stem Cells
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been prescribed stem cell transplantation therapy for MS in the last five years, by NHS region.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 11 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
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been prescribed stem cell transplantation therapy for MS in the last five years, by NHS region.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
Whilst there is no data available for how many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have been prescribed a stem cell transplant, the British Society for Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy (BSBMTCT) reports that, between 2018 and 2022, there w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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