Question follow-through · 75475

Motor Neurone Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of regional inequities in the provision of early access programmes for (a) innovative treatments and (b) people living with SOD1 motor neurone disease.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
5 Sept 2025
Target answer date
9 Sept 2025
Answer
25 Sept 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 5 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of regional inequities in the provision of early access programmes for (a) innovative treatments and (b) people living with SOD1 motor neurone disease.

  2. 9 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Company-led early access programmes (EAPs) are not endorsed by the Department or NHS England and no assessment has been made of whether there are regional inequities in the provision of early access programmes for innovative treatments and people living w...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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