Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the criteria for the allocation of funding for life sciences that was announced in the Queen’s Speech 2021 will prioritise research on (a) women’s health and (b) safer medicines for pregnant women.
The exact topics that will be addressed by the Women’s Health Strategy have not yet been decided. The evidence gathered through the call for evidence will inform the priorities, content and actions in the new Strategy.
Decisions over which individual research projects or programmes to support are made through independent evaluation by experts, based on the quality and likely impact of that research.