Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 75331

Clinical Trials

Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 25 September 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

Conservative — Huntingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on reducing trial approval times to under 150 days.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The Department is committed to cutting the current time it takes to get a clinical trial set up, to under 150 days by March 2026 with the aim of making the United Kingdom a world leader in clinical trials. We are streamlining the set-up and delivery of cl...
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