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ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated for Myalgic encephalomyelitis research in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated for Myalgic encephalomyelitis research in each of the last five years.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between the 2019/20 and 2023/24 financial years the NIHR committed approximately £3.7 million to research projects and programmes on myalgic encephalomyeliti...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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