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Question follow-through · 52408

Pineal Cysts: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission research on symptomatic cases of pineal cysts.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 May 2025
Target answer date
16 May 2025
Answer
22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission research on symptomatic cases of pineal cysts.

  2. 16 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR has previously supported research on pineal cysts at the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, with further details of this work available at t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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