Question follow-through · 118084
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) set and (b) considered setting a national standard for the maximum timeframe within which brain tumour tissue should be placed into a fresh-frozen state following sur
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) set and (b) considered setting a national standard for the maximum timeframe within which brain tumour tissue should be placed into a fresh-frozen state following sur
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Department has neither set nor considered setting a national standard for the maximum timeframe within which brain tumour tissue should be placed into a fresh-frozen state following surgical excision.Fresh-freezing, also referred to as snap-freezing, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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