Baroness Jay of Paddington: DHSC: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Brain: Tumours

Friday 23rd April 2021

Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response by Lord Bethell on 19 January (HL Deb, cols 1080–4), what progress they have made towards developing research projects on brain tumours, and in particular on young people with brain tumours.

Answered by Lord Bethell

As part of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, the National Institute for Healthcare Research has received 69 applications, 10 of which have been funded and a further seven are under consideration. One of the funded applications is focused solely on children and others include young people.