Coronavirus: Research

(asked on 4th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that the publicly funded research and development costs of (a) a vaccine for covid-19 and (b) drugs to treat that disease are (i) published and (ii) provided to (A) other governments and (B) the WHO's Global Observatory on Health Research and Development.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 13th May 2020

The United Kingdom Government has committed £24.6 million for COVID-19 research through a joint Rapid Response Research Call and is providing over £45 million in funding to two UK vaccine candidates. Details of the projects funded through the joint Rapid Response call, including the amount of funding granted are publicly available on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation-Medical Research Council websites.

The UK Government is a signatory of the 2013 Helsinki declaration which states that research studies must be registered on an internationally recognised trial registry. The International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register is the internationally recognised registry of choice for primary research in the UK and feeds into the World Health Organization’s own systems. All NIHR-funded primary research studies are required to register in an appropriate registry.

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