| Heading: |
Epilepsy: Research |
| Question ID: |
1819358 |
| UIN: |
64915 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5039 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kanishka Narayan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Kanishka Narayan
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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) support research into (i) Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) and (ii) epilepsy-related mortality, (b) improve understanding of the causes of thos |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-11 |
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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 Department funds research into epilepsy via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR has funded a range of ongoing and completed epilepsy research, including research into the development of a wireless intracranial neuromon... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |