Question follow-through · 100589
Cancer: Terminal Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to (a) alter and (b) mitigate the National Institute for Care and Excellence's downgrading of terminal cancer to moderately severe.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 29 Dec 2025 · 13 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
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to (a) alter and (b) mitigate the National Institute for Care and Excellence's downgrading of terminal cancer to moderately severe.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Dec 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has not classified terminal cancer as moderately severe. The NICE is an independent body and is responsible for developing the methods and processes it uses to evaluate whether new medicines sho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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