| Heading: |
Clinical Trials |
| Question ID: |
1815670 |
| UIN: |
61957 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4799 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Charlotte Nichols
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| Asking Member handle: |
charlotte2153
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@charlotte2153
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that publicly-funded medical trials (a) must be balanced by sex and (b) results must be sex-disaggregated. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
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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: |
Medical trials, wherever possible, should always be balanced by sex, however, certain clinical trials are designed to investigate conditions that are only specific to one sex, so enforcing a balance would not make sense on those occasions.The Department c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |