Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) conducted on Parkinson's disease in the last five years.

The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a wide range of research relating to Parkinson’s disease through its programmes, fellowship schemes, research centres and units, clinical research facilities and the NIHR Clinical Research Network.

Major investments that relate fully or partially to Parkinson’s disease include:

- £3.5 million for the research theme on dementia and neurodegenerative disease at the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (2012-17);

- £3.1 million for the research theme on neuroscience at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (2012-17);

- £3.0 million for the research theme on functional neuroscience and imaging at the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (2012-17);

- £2.0 million for a programme of research to inform clinical management of visual hallucinations associated with Parkinson’s disease and other conditions (2012-18);

- £1.9 million for a trial of the effectiveness of an intervention to prevent falls among people with Parkinson’s disease (2013-17); and

- £1.3 million for an evaluation of short-term integrated palliative care services to optimise care for people with advanced long-term neurological conditions (2014-18).