Question follow-through · 68754
Alzheimer's Disease: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on approving new drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 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
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on approving new drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service in England on whether new medicines should be routinely funded based on an assessment of their costs and benefits. NICE evaluates all new me...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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