Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies of long term outcomes for children who stammer his Department has conducted or commissioned through a long-term national cohort study of children from early years to adulthood.

The Department has not conducted or commissioned such studies. The Department's National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including stammering. These applications 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.