Dementia: Research

(asked on 11th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2022 to Question 94366 on Dementia: Research, if he will publish all available figures for dementia spending in 2020-21.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 14th January 2022

Figures for the National Institute for Health Research (NHIR) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) will be available in the coming months.

Government spend on dementia research 2020-21

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

£8,025,232.10

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBBSRC)

£1,500,000

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

£11,477,620

Please note that BBSRC provided an estimated figure for dementia research based on their broad portfolio of underpinning relevance (£29m in 2020/21).

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