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ME/CFS: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether current strategic prioritisation for ME research is proportionate to the disease burden.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether current strategic prioritisation for ME research is proportionate to the disease burden.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department has not made a specific assessment of whether the strategic prioritisation for research into myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), is proportionate to the disease burden. However, we recognise that this...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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