Question follow-through · 122914
Dementia: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase the number and capacity of dementia trials.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase the number and capacity of dementia trials.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department for Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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