| Heading: |
Rare Diseases: Research |
| Question ID: |
1808270 |
| UIN: |
56378 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4857 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Carla Lockhart
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| Asking Member handle: |
carlalockhart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@carlalockhart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase funding and support for research into rare diseases and (b) improve early diagnosis pathways for patients. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases through the UK Rare Diseases Framework. Pioneering research is an underpinning theme of the framework. In the 2025 England Rare Diseases Action Plan we introduced a new ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |