PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health: Research (9 May 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the article entitled When Ethics and politics collide in donor funded global health research, published in the Lancet on 22 March 2019, what steps he is taking to ensure that his Department does not interfere with independent researchers.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

The Department is allocating £619.5 million of Official Development Assistance (ODA) research funding under the current Spending Review. The Department’s global health research programming applies the Haldane Principle to assure independence of research across four strategic programmes. All research funding is awarded following open competition and independent expert review, with strategic input and guidance on research programming provided by relevant independent scientific advisory groups.

Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
16 May 2019