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Written question asked by Dominic Raab (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 November 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 23 November 2023. It was answered by Andrew Stephenson (Conservative) on Monday, 27 November 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


Brain: Tumours

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 4 September 2023 to Question 195426 on Brain: Tumours, how much and what proportion of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's allocated spend was spent on research infrastructure in each year since 2018.

Answer

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s infrastructure investment funds the world-class facilities, expertise, and skilled delivery workforce for research across the National Health Service and wider health and care system in England from early translational clinical research through to applied health and care research.

It is difficult to attribute this funding to specific disease and therapy areas as the staff and facilities funded through the NIHR infrastructure support research across disciplines. For example, the NIHR Clinical Research Network supported almost one million participants to take part in health and care research in England in 2022/23 across 5,000 studies and 30 specialties, and the 20 NIHR Biomedical Research Centres supported 8,700 experimental medicine studies in 2021/22.

Whilst audited data for NIHR expenditure for 2022/23 is not yet available, the following table shows the NIHR spend on research infrastructure each financial year between 2018/19 and 2021/22 as well the proportion of spend on research infrastructure compared to overall NIHR spend:

2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22
Infrastructure spend £521,892 £545,974 £548,613 £541,361 £615,077
Total allocated spend £1,012,711 £1,012,920 £1,036,723 £1,116,137 £1,259,436
Infrastructure spend as proportion of total allocated spend 52% 54% 53% 49% 49%

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
2861
Session
2023-24
Related items
Brain: Tumours
Monday, 4 September 2023
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Finance Research Brain Tumours
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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