Question follow-through · 94612
Rare Diseases: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people living with rare diseases in England have timely access to innovative medicines.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions · 28 Nov 2025
- Coronavirus: Vaccination · 1 Dec 2025
- Heart Diseases: Death · 11 Dec 2025
- Dementia: Means-tested Benefits · 16 Dec 2025
- Midwives: Maidenhead · 5 Jan 2026
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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
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people living with rare diseases in England have timely access to innovative medicines.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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