Question follow-through · 77307
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase funding for research and innovation to improve cancer outcomes.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 63 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
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase funding for research and innovation to improve cancer outcomes.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Research is crucial in tackling cancer, which is why the Department invests £1.6 billion each year on research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Cancer is one of the largest areas of spend at ov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pharmacy
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Mental Health: Young People
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Palliative Care: Children
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Palliative Care: Children
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Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support research into (a) treatments and (b) a cure for postural tachycardia syndrome.
Dementia: Diagnosis
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of removing the relevant target from the NHS Operational Planning Guidance 2025-6 on the dementia diagnosis rate.
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21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of dementia care provision in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.
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General Practitioners: Ely and East Cambridgeshire
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General Practitioners
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General Practitioners
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