Question follow-through · 9402
Long Covid and ME/CFS: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to research into (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) long covid.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to research into (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) long covid.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Department funds research in health and social care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are committed to funding high-quality research to understand the causes, consequenc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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