Dementia: Research
(asked on 11th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much Government funding was allocated to dementia research in each of the last five years.
Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department for Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation, mainly by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The amount spent by these funders, excluding the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and Innovate UK, on dementia research for the last five years of available data is shown in the table below.
Year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
NIHR | £43 million | £31.6 million | £29 million | £21.9 million | £31.3 million |
MRC | £34.9 million | £56.5 million | £44 million | £46.9 million | £41.6 million |
ESRC | £4 million | £7.4 million | £5.9 million | £8 million | £7.4 million |
Total | £81.9 million | £95.5 million | £78.9 million | £76.8 million | £80.3 million |
Spend for dementia research is calculated retrospectively and is usually finalised around eight months after the end of the financial year. Therefore, 2021/22 is the most recent year we have full data for.