Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 88817

Cancer: Drugs

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 26 November 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people who cannot afford anticancer treatment will continue to receive treatment beyond the stopping date of their anticancer agent being ava

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that develops authoritative, evidence-based recommendations on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service based on an assess...

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