Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to increase investment in research relating to low-grade glioma over the next spending period.

Some of the data requested by the Hon. Member is not centrally held, but on the wider issues raised, I refer him to the answer provided on 3 March in response to Question 115098. Available data on this issue is also published by the National Institute for Health and Care Research at the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research/cancer/brain-tumours