Question follow-through · 48021
Essential Tremor: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of funding for research into essential tremors.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of funding for research into essential tremors.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is supporting research that involves essential tremors and has awarded £2,814,334 for related studies in the last five years. The NIHR welcomes fund...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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