Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of research into low-grade gliomas in each of the last five years.
In 2018 the Government announced £40 million over five years for brain tumour research as part of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
We are relying on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this very difficult area. Workshops for researchers are being booked and we are encouraging more researchers to become involved.
The following table sets out relevant NIHR expenditure on low-grade gliomas over the last five years:
2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
£770,000 | £577,000 | £1.01 million | £866,000 | £942,000 |