Question follow-through · 81769
Epilepsy: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the NHS of treating children with drug-resistant epilepsy who do not respond to conventional medications; and whether his Department is f
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 39 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the NHS of treating children with drug-resistant epilepsy who do not respond to conventional medications; and whether his Department is f
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
No estimate has been made of the annual cost to the National Health Service of treating children with drug-resistant epilepsy who do not respond to conventional medications. A detailed costing exercise is only usually undertaken where there is a new evide...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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