Medicine: Research

(asked on 21st October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the National Institute for Health and Care Research has spent on research into (a) gynaecological and urogynaecological health, (b) asthma and (c) diabetes in each of the last ten years; and what proportion of the NIHR’s overall spend each of those amounts represents.


Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 31st October 2024

The following table shows how much the National Institute for Health and Care Research spent on research, as well as that spend as a percentage of total research spend, for gynaecological and urogynaecological, each year from 2014/15 to 2023/34, and in total over that period:

Financial year

Spend

Proportion of total research spend

2014/15

£3,820,598

1.3%

2015/16

£4,119,736

1.4%

2016/17

£4,598,586

1.6%

2017/18

£5,794,355

1.5%

2018/19

£4,876,814

1.3%

2019/20

£5,558,241

1.3%

2020/21

£5,255,747

1.3%

2021/22

£5,808,297

1.2%

2022/23

£5,472,805

1.0%

2023/24

£6,381,906

1.3%

Total 2014 to 2024

£51,687,086

1.3%


Additionally, the following table shows how much the National Institute for Health and Care Research spent on research, as well as that spend as a percentage of total research spend, for asthma, each year from 2014/15 to 2023/34, and in total over that period:

Financial year

Spend

Proportion of total research spend

2014/15

£2,881,919

1.0%

2015/16

£3,148,352

1.1%

2016/17

£2,222,035

0.8%

2017/18

£4,451,842

1.2%

2018/19

£4,999,804

1.3%

2019/20

£8,823,017

2.1%

2020/21

£8,950,535

2.2%

2021/22

£7,378,125

1.5%

2022/23

£6,947,881

1.3%

2023/24

£8,733,915

1.7%

Total 2014 to 2024

£58,537,425

1.5%


Finally, the following table shows how much the National Institute for Health and Care Research spent on research, as well as that spend as a percentage of total research spend, for diabetes, each year from 2014/15 to 2023/34, and in total over that period:

Financial year

Spend

Proportion of total research spend

2014/15

£8,886,001

3.1%

2015/16

£8,570,471

2.9%

2016/17

£8,899,325

3.0%

2017/18

£12,240,087

3.3%

2018/19

£13,180,008

3.4%

2019/20

£17,097,212

4.1%

2020/21

£16,899,589

4.1%

2021/22

£21,713,745

4.3%

2022/23

£20,346,333

3.8%

2023/24

£25,271,594

5.1%

Total 2014 to 2024

£153,104,366

3.8%

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