Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding schemes his Department provides for medical researchers.

The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds clinical, public health, and social care research and works in partnership with the National Health Service, universities, local government, other research funders, patients, and the public, and the NIHR also funds global health research. Funding opportunities can be accessed from the NIHR website, at the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-opportunities

The NIHR also provides a wide range of applicant‑led funding streams that support high‑quality research across all areas of human health and care which can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/research-funding/funding-programmes