Question follow-through · 98548
Breasts: Plastic Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the research programmes that are underway on the safety of breast implants.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the research programmes that are underway on the safety of breast implants.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is not currently funding any specific research into the safety of breast implants but welcomes funding applications for research into any aspe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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