Question follow-through · 75330

Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on doubling commercial interventional trial participants by the end of 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
9 Oct 2025 · 35 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 4 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on doubling commercial interventional trial participants by the end of 2025.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The Department is monitoring progress on commercial interventional trial participation via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The number of participants recruited to commercial interventional trials in the United Kingdom was 21,10...

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