Question follow-through · 93294
Rare Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address regional variation in access to rare disease care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address regional variation in access to rare disease care.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases. England’s 2025 Rare Diseases Action Plan was published in February and reports on actions to address health inequalities f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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