Question follow-through · 88816
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of systems for determining the duration of NHS funding for anticancer agents.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 16 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
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of systems for determining the duration of NHS funding for anticancer agents.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that develops authoritative, evidence-based recommendations on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service based on an assess...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Parkinson's Disease: Nurses
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of specialist Parkinson’s nurses.
Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to diagnose Parkinson's.
Tomography
12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering CT scans to former miners.
Spiking: Testing
12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tests for spiking were conducted in hospitals in England in each of the last five years.
Spiking: Health Services
12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) testing and (b) support in hospitals for victims of spiking.
NHS: Drugs
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing drug prices on patients.
Endometriosis: Health Education
18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of endometriosis amongst medical professionals.
Endometriosis: Waiting Lists
18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) tests, (b) diagnosis and (c) treatment for endometriosis.
Endometriosis: Health Services
18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of care for patients with endometriosis.
Endometriosis: Research
18 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing levels of research into the (a) causes of and (b) treatment pathways for endometriosis.
Tobacco: Retail Trade
19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of illegitimate businesses and rogue retailers selling tobacco and nicotine products.