PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(3 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the additional funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 for the National Institute for Health and Care Research will be allocated.

Asked by:
Clive Jones (Liberal Democrat)

The 2025/26 settlement for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) will fund research into a range of health and care challenges facing the population. A key element of this investment is research to support the goals of the Government health and growth missions, including investment to maximise our potential to be a world leader and develop a more competitive, efficient, and accessible clinical research system.

To allocate research funding, the NIHR employs a competitive and peer-reviewed process for applications to its research funding programmes, evaluating submissions based on scientific rigour, potential patient benefits, and alignment with population health and care priorities.

Details of NIHR funding allocated to individual research awards are openly published and updated on an ongoing basis on the ‘Open Data’ site of the NIHR at the following link:

https://nihr.opendatasoft.com/pages/homepage/

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