Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission research on liposuction treatment for patients with chronic lipoedema.

The Department invests £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including chronic lipoedema. As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.