Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage an increase in research into brain tumours.

In 2018 the Government announced £40 million over five years for brain tumour research as part of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

The NIHR is taking action to help researchers develop high-quality research proposals in this scientifically challenging area. To encourage such proposals, we released a public announcement to the research community in April 2018, which makes clear our desire to receive brain tumour research funding applications. This led to an immediate increase in proposals, which continues to be assessed by relevant review panels of scientific experts. We are relying on researchers to submit research proposals in this difficult area of research.