Bambos Charalambous

69898 • Motor Neurone Disease: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to innovative treatments for people with SOD1 motor neurone disease.

53133 • Cancer: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Young Lives vs Cancer's report entitled A young cancer patient travel fund, published in February 2024, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) trends in levels of travel costs, (b) the adequacy of the amount of financial support for young cancer patients and their families and (b) the potential impact on (i) missing appointments and (ii) delaying treatment.

53134 • Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the distances travelled and (b) costs incurred by children and young people travelling to principle treatment centres in London; and what assessment he has made of the potential the merits of introducing a young cancer patient travel fund.

53135 • Social Security Benefits: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 10 of Young Lives vs Cancer’s report entitled The cost of waiting, published in March 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of average time from diagnosis to first payment of disability benefits; what steps is she taking to reduce processing times for disability benefits' applications from young people with cancer; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reducing the three month period from diagnosis before young people with cancer can apply for disability benefits.

53136 • Personal Independence Payment: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment on people under 25 years of age with cancer; and whether people under 25 years of age with cancer and currently in receipt in Personal Independence Payment will continue to be eligible under the proposed reforms.

903779 • Crown Court: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the crown court backlog.

42270 • Cancer: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in (a) access to clinical trials and (b) specialist psychological support for young people with cancer.

42319 • Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help tackle shortages across the Parkinson’s disease specialist workforce and (b) assess how current workforce shortages are impacting the delivery of multi-disciplinary care as outlined in NICE guidance; and what plans he has to increase the Parkinson’s disease specialists workforce.

42320 • Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking within current NHS workforce planning to improve uptake of digital consultations for Parkinson’s patients as a mechanism to reduce neurology waiting times and reduce the backlog in accessing a neurologist.

42321 • Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that Parkinson’s Disease services across England are supported to provide the full range of NICE-approved treatment options to eligible patients in a timely manner.

42322 • Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce variations in access to treatments approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for advanced and complex Parkinson’s Disease.

41489 • Cancer: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of young people with cancer who were diagnosed at Stage (a) one and (b) two.

32164 • Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to fill the humanitarian and development gap left by the USAID funding freezes.

22661 • Drugs: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure patients that rely on medicines for (a) epilepsy, (b) ADHD and (c) Parkinson's are not impacted by supply shortages.

5351 • Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timescale is for introducing legislation to ban the import of hunting trophies.