UK Health Security Agency: Research

(asked on 17th October 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 the UK Health Security Agency Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre spent on research and development in the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 financial years; and how much it expects to spend in 2023-24.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 23rd October 2023

The UK Health Security Agency’s Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC) only formally existed from 1 April 2023, so finances for previous financial years are not available in the format requested. The forecasted research and development expenditure for the whole VDEC programme for 2023/24 is £7.2 million. It should be noted that this is a maximum forecast including a contingency pot and actual spend may be less.

This spend will be included in the organisational spend published in the Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure, noting in the publication that VDEC spend will not be separated out from overall program spend.

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