Question follow-through · 82859
Drugs: Investment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of reduced pharmaceutical investment on the economy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of reduced pharmaceutical investment on the economy.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government monitors a wide range of indicators to assess the UK’s economic performance. Official economic forecasts and assessments of policy impacts are set out in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) Economic and Fiscal Outlook documents, th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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