Question follow-through · 97472
Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the PATHWAYS trial will distinguish true clinical effects from placebo or expectation effects in an open label design.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 40 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the PATHWAYS trial will distinguish true clinical effects from placebo or expectation effects in an open label design.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led. That’s why we are following expert, independent advice from the Cass Review to implement a programme of research to support the National Health Service to provide the best support to children and young pe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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