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(asked on 31st 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, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 11 January 2022, Official Report, column 415, what progress he has made on allocating the dementia research and development budget.


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George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 3rd February 2022

The Department for Health & Social Care will invest £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years to fund projects into a range of diseases including dementia.

Following the Spending Review, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is currently working to set detailed R&D budgets through to 2024/25. Further details of how this funding will be allocated will be announced in due course.

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