Question follow-through · 98439
Multiple Sclerosis: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his department collects to monitor potential inequalities in multiple sclerosis care access; and how those findings are used to inform policy and service delivery improvements.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 27 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
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his department collects to monitor potential inequalities in multiple sclerosis care access; and how those findings are used to inform policy and service delivery improvements.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department does not collect patient-level clinical data directly but works with NHS England and other bodies to monitor inequalities in access to multiple sclerosis (MS) services through a range of national programmes and datasets.The UK Multiple Scle...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how patient organisations representing people living with rare conditions will be consulted on the development of new pilots being delivered as part of the UK-US trade agreement.
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Liver Diseases: Health Services
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