PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Research (21 October 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of his Department’s cancer research budget was spent on childhood cancer research in the last three years; and if he breakdown those figures by types of childhood cancer that received that funding.

Asked by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)

This information is not held in the format requested. The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR does not categorise research studies by age group or by type of childhood cancer.

In addition, not all studies research a specific condition but are aimed at prevention or to improve outcomes for multiple conditions.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
27 October 2021