Written questions

Brain Cancer: Research

Commons · Question 122700 · Tabled 23 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Cat Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to early-stage and discovery brain cancer research in the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of that funding for building a pipelin

Answer

Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 30 Mar 2026

Government responsibility for delivering cancer research is shared between the Department for Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Tec...