Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage research into new treatments for Huntington’s disease.

The Government remains strongly committed to supporting research into dementia and neurodegeneration, including Huntington’s disease. The National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres have supported recent research on diagnosis and treatment of this condition.

The Government’s 2020 Challenge contained the commitment to spend £300 million on dementia research over five years. This commitment was delivered a year early with £344 million spent on dementia and neurodegeneration research over the four years to 31 March 2019. We are currently working on ways to boost significantly further research on dementia and neurodegeneration at all stages on the translation pathway including medical and care interventions.