Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the level of regional disparities in access to (a) brain tumour clinical trials and (b) tissue-based precision medicine arising from variations in tumour tissue preservation facilities; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure all NHS neurosurgical centres have the infrastructure required to store brain tumour tissue for future research and treatment opportunities.
I refer the Hon. Members to the answer provided on 22 September in response to Question HL2877.