The phrase "answer to the debate" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a response or solution to a discussion or argument between two or more parties. Example: The candidate's answer to the debate on healthcare was well-received by the audience. He presented a clear and practical solution to the issue at hand.
The revised report found no definitive answer to the debate.
So in answer to the debate I don't know, I really don't know.
By the 1960s, and continuing to the present, research indicated that the answer to the debate is that both positions are correct.
The unsatisfying answer to the debate over whether genes or environment are more important may simply be that both matter, and the contributions of each will vary depending on the disease.
It is our answer to the debate over whether higher education is worth it: For these outstanding institutions, we give a resounding yes.
Recent publications of the Rhizophagus irregularis genome (Tisserant et al. 2013) and single nucleus sequencing (Lin et al. 2014) report evidence in favor of homokaryosis, but it is unclear whether the approach adopted in these studies is sufficient to provide a definite answer to the debate.
Perhaps if the organizers of the L.A. MOCA show started from this perspective, then they would have an answer to the debates that have greeted the exhibition other than what they have now, which seems to amount to the bad parental logic of "do as I say, not as I do".
—Yet the chemistry between the two candidates cannot be rehearsed and their interactions could be just as important as the answers to the debate questions.
Author Ellen Hopkins offers no solid answers to the debate but stirs things up sufficiently well that readers may decide to step back from the prevailing orthodoxies on the issue and think for themselves.
But not only is his proposal not The Answer to the encryption debate, it just made it a lot worse.
These initiatives were the answer to the clever debate taunt, "where's the beef?" But they also resisted media insistence on sound-bite compression.
