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Essential Tremor: Research

Asked by Rachel GilmourLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 1 May 2025UIN 48021

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of funding for research into essential tremors.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is supporting research that involves essential tremors and has awarded £2,814,334 for related studies in the last five years. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of health and care, including essential tremors, and research topic proposals can be made to the NIHR via the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved/suggest-a-research-topic

Funding applications to the NIHR are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money, and scientific quality.

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