Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what science funding his Department has allocated to the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of (i) Interstitial lung disease and (ii) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The Department has not allocated specific science funding for diagnosis and treatment of Interstitial lung disease and Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of interstitial lung disease services and funds the high cost anti-fibrotic treatments which treat these diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis. Access to these treatments have recently been widened to people with non-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with the publication of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisal 747 in November 2021.