Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for (a) brain cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) lung cancer, (d) bowel cancer and (e) prostate cancer research since 2018, what amount and what percentage of reported public research expenditure consisted of infrastructure, programme or other expenditure not directly attributable to a named research project or study; and by what methodology that expenditure was included within disease-specific research expenditure figures.

The information requested is not available as it is not held centrally. For brain cancer expenditure, I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 25 June in response to Question 9944.

On the wider issues raised, I refer the Hon. Member to the National Cancer Plan, published in February, which sets out the Government’s approach to research and treatment in these and other areas. The plan is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cancer-plan-for-england