Question follow-through · 65055
Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients with incurable secondary breast cancer are able to access new life-extending treatments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 10 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
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients with incurable secondary breast cancer are able to access new life-extending treatments.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
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Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if she will provide the ethnic breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proportion of (a) total def
Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if he will publish the combined ethnic and gender breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proporti
Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if he will publish the ethnic and gender breakdown of the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel as a proportion of (a) total
Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of routinely publishing data on (a) blood donations and (b) donation deferrals.
Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, what the ethnic breakdown is of the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel; and what this is as a proportion of (a) total defe
Blood: Donors
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, whether he will provide a breakdown of the top 10 countries travelled to by the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel.
Nurses: Migrant Workers
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Government’s immigration policies on trends in the level of recruitment of internationally educated nurses into (a) the NHS and (b) soci
Surgery: Waiting Lists
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for urgent NHS operations in cases where patients are waiting significantly beyond the clinically recommended timeframe.
Surgery
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure patients receive timely updates about the status of their NHS operations through (a) the NHS App, (b) other digital platforms and (c) other means.
Surgery
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the availability of (a) daily and (b) weekly surgical appointments for operations in NHS hospitals.
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve coordination between NHS hospitals within the same region to offer patients earlier appointments at alternative sites.