Question follow-through · 112777
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of families who will benefit from the financial support package to cover travel costs to and from cancer appointments in (a) Bedfordshire and (b)
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of families who will benefit from the financial support package to cover travel costs to and from cancer appointments in (a) Bedfordshire and (b)
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Department knows that the cost of travel is an important issue for many young cancer patients and their families across the United Kingdom.Through the National Cancer Plan, the Government is committing up to £10 million a year to a new fund open to al...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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