PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
HIV Infection: Research (24 January 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much from the public purse the Government spent on HIV research and development in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.

Asked by:
David Mundell (Conservative)

The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a partner organisation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, funds research relating to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) across all UKRI councils.

The latest spend figures available for research on HIV are as follows:

Financial expenditure
Funded by	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
NIHR	£8,087,542	£5,786,318	£6,153,681	£7,341,078	£8,310,996
UKRI*	£6,771,301	£9,024,753	£10,511,516	£12,545,525	£8,905,895

*collated data on expenditure for Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This includes payments due for 2022/23 financial year.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
3 February 2023