Dementia: Research

(asked on 7th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he intends to make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to allocate more funding to dementia research in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 15th May 2019

The Government remains strongly committed to supporting research into dementia and the United Kingdom research community is playing a significant role in the global effort to find a cure or a major disease-modifying treatment by 2025. In terms of funding, the future of budgets outside of the NHS England resource settlement will be confirmed later this year in the Spending Review 2019. The Government has made clear that the number one spending priority is the National Health Service, which will get £33.9 billion more in cash terms by 2023-24, compared to 2018-19. Discussions with HM Treasury are ongoing.

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