Question follow-through · 115127
Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all arms of the Pathways clinical trials have been paused.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all arms of the Pathways clinical trials have been paused.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2026
Answer published
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16 Mar 2026
Answer corrected
The PATHWAYS TRIAL focuses on the effects of puberty suppressing hormones on young people’s physical, social, and emotional well-being specifically when offered alongside the new model of National Health Service gender care based on comprehensive assessme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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