Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase funding for research into brain cancer beyond those set out in his Department's press release of 14 May 2018 entitled Government announces £40 million for brain cancer research in honour of Tessa Jowell; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research, which will now be referred to as the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Research Fund as part of the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission. Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support a wide range of research from early translation (experimental medicine) through clinical and on to applied research. In essence this will support the translation of laboratory discoveries into treatments and better care for patients. In doing this the NIHR will work closely with its partners, including other Government funders such as the Medical Research Council (MRC), and charities such as Cancer Research UK and the brain tumour charities.

The NIHR has published a call to increase research on brain tumours, which encourages collaborative applications that demonstrate how they build on recent initiatives and investment in the area made by the NIHR, the MRC and other research funders.