Mesothelioma

(asked on 3rd September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the insurance industry on the allocation of monies for research into the elimination of mesothelioma.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 10th September 2014

In April this year, my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Earl Howe) convened a high level meeting between the Association of British Insurers and the British Lung Foundation (BLF) to discuss how insurers can remain engaged in support for mesothelioma research following earlier donated funding. Departmental officials attended this meeting. Discussions between the BLF and insurers are ongoing. The Department has no direct role in these discussions but is monitoring progress.

Any further funding made available by insurers for mesothelioma research will be in addition to existing sources of public funding. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has highlighted to the research community that it wants to encourage research applications in mesothelioma. Further details of this are available on the NIHR website at:

www.themedcalls.nihr.ac.uk/mesothelioma

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