Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding her Department is providing for brain cancer research in the current financial year; and whether the level of this has changed following the debate on Brain Cancer, Monday 15 June 2026, cc271WH-296WH.

Further to the answer provided on 25 June in response to Question 9944, I refer the Hon. Members to the press release published on GOV.UK on 14 October concerning new action the Government is taking to improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain cancer, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/brain-cancer-patients-to-see-faster-development-of-new-treatments