Question follow-through · 11718
Long Covid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on (a) the effects of and (b) treatment for long covid.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on (a) the effects of and (b) treatment for long covid.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).Over the last five years, the Government, through NIHR and the Medical Research Council (MRC), has invested over £57 million in long...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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