Question follow-through · 61548
Tourette's Syndrome: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase funding into research on the (a) causes of and (b) treatments for Tourette’s syndrome.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase funding into research on the (a) causes of and (b) treatments for Tourette’s syndrome.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department invests over £1.6 billion each year on research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).The NIHR has funded a number of research projects on Tourette’s syndrome, including the live ORBIT...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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