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Written question asked by Lord Maples (Conservative) on Tuesday, 16 June 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 June 2009. It was answered by Baroness Merron (Labour) on Thursday, 2 July 2009 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Cancer: Research

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department allocated to research into (a) cancer and (b) ovarian cancer in the last five years.
Answer

The most recent available information in respect of the departmental and national health service expenditure on cancer research is shown in the following table.

£ million
2003-04 140
2004-05 150
2005-06 168
2006-07 161
2007-08 159

The Medical Research Council and other research councils funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills also invest significantly in cancer research. Comparable information in relation to ovarian cancer research is not held centrally.Over the last 10 years, the main part of the Department's research and development budget has been allocated to and managed by national health service organisations. Those organisations have accounted for their use of the allocations they have received from the Department in an annual research and development report. The reports identify total, aggregated expenditure on national priority areas, including cancer. They do not provide details of research into particular cancer sites.The National Cancer Research Institute, a United Kingdom wide partnership between government, charities and industry, makes cancer research information available online via the International Cancer Research Portfolio database at:"www.cancerportfolio.org"Details of current departmental and Medical Research Council site-specific cancer research can be found through this database.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
495 c391W; 281329
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Cancer Research
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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