Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the Government has spent on research into improving palliative care in the last five years.
The Department invests in research on palliative and end of life care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2017/2018 and 2022/23, the NIHR Research Programmes spent approximately £22.3 million pounds on palliative and end of life care research.