Question follow-through · 57233
Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of local health committees to respond promptly to local clinical trial requests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of local health committees to respond promptly to local clinical trial requests.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
Clinical trial requests are responded to by the Health Research Authority (HRA). The Department routinely monitors the performance of Research Ethics Committee approval timelines delivered by the HRA to ensure these meet targets for clinical trial approva...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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