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Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, (b) the NHS, (c) Cabinet colleagues and (d) other stakeholders on indication-specific pricing of medications use
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, (b) the NHS, (c) Cabinet colleagues and (d) other stakeholders on indication-specific pricing of medications use
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not held any meetings specifically on the topic of indication-specific pricing of medications used in the treatment of more than one form of cancer.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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