Question follow-through · 116808
Hearing Impairment: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support research into hearing loss treatment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support research into hearing loss treatment.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Department delivers research into hearing loss via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).This includes, for example, £2.4 million of NIHR funding for a study that will compare giving adults with severe hearing loss implants in bot...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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