Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government spent on osteoporosis research in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
The following table shows spending by the National Institute for Health Research on osteoporosis research in each financial year from 2018 and 2021.
2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
£1,359,889 | £1,011,547 | £908,433 |
Spend is adjusted through the lifecycle of a project and may not be the same each year depending on the demands of the research required at each stage. In 2020/21 project life cycles will also have experienced significant new demands due to the COVID pandemic and would have to adapt accordingly, for example, research staff being deployed temporarily to frontline NHS services.