Question follow-through · 76312
Radiotherapy: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for radiotherapy treatment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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- 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
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for radiotherapy treatment.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2025
Answer published
Radiotherapy is vital in cancer care, and it remains a key priority for the Government to reduce radiotherapy waiting times and provide the highest quality of treatment available. This is why the Government has invested £70 million of central funding on 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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