Health: Research

(asked on 9th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the article entitled When Ethics and politics collide in donor funded global health research, published in the Lancet on 22 March 2019, what steps he is taking to ensure that his Department does not interfere with independent researchers.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 16th May 2019

The Department is allocating £619.5 million of Official Development Assistance (ODA) research funding under the current Spending Review. The Department’s global health research programming applies the Haldane Principle to assure independence of research across four strategic programmes. All research funding is awarded following open competition and independent expert review, with strategic input and guidance on research programming provided by relevant independent scientific advisory groups.

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