Question follow-through · 97647
Brain Cancer: Thames Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire Integrated Care Board to ensure that people are receiving timely treatment for brain cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire Integrated Care Board to ensure that people are receiving timely treatment for brain cancer.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department recognises that there are currently limited treatment options available for people who have been diagnosed with brain tumours, and the significant impact that rarer forms of cancer can have on patients, carers, and their families. The Gover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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