Clinical Trials
Commons · Question 61957 · Tabled 23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Charlotte Nichols
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.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 1 Jul 2025
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...