Question follow-through · 31097
Epilepsy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the causes of epilepsy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Feb 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the causes of epilepsy.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Department funds research into epilepsy via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR committed £31.5 million of funding to 28 epilepsy research projects in the five years from April 2019 to March 2024. Additionally, over th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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