Question follow-through · 99570
Omaveloxolone: Friedreich's Ataxia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equitable interim access to omaveloxolone for patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equitable interim access to omaveloxolone for patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend on 3 December to Question 95051.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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