Cancer and Dementia: Research

(asked on 25th January 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Anthony Browne Portrait
Anthony Browne
(Conservative - South Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's financial investment in (a) cancer research and (b) dementia research has been per year since 2015.

Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 7th February 2022

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a partner organisation of BEIS, funds research relating to cancer and dementia across all UKRI councils.

Spend data is presented instead of commitment data to avoid misrepresenting grants that are subject to multi-year funding that are allocated in a single year but spent across several years. This results in uneven distribution of the funding allocations data with apparent spikes and certain years followed by no funding allocation being recorded in subsequent years.

Cancer research

Year

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

UKRI spend £m

1.9

120.7

113.1

116.0

121.3

3.7

Dementia research

Year

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

UKRI spend £m

65.5

44.0

39.8

53.2

47.4

7.3

Notes on cancer research figures

  1. Spend figures include data provided by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC).
  2. Spend data for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK (IUK), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Research England (RE) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are not provided.
  3. MRC and BBSRC spend data for 2015/16 is unavailable.
  4. MRC and BBSRC spend data for 2020/21 is not currently available.
  5. MRC and BBSRC spend is provided by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI). Spend is based on the percentage of each research project that is relevant to cancer research.
  6. ESRC total spend for each relevant grant is included in the data above.
  7. The many funding mechanisms involved reflect a range of investments into projects, institutions and infrastructures. Currently, investment figures are calculated differently across UKRI councils. As such, the data provided across the UKRI Councils is collected from a range of measurement criteria.

Notes on dementia research figures

  1. Spend figures include data provided by BBSRC, ESRC and MRC.
  2. Spend data for AHRC, EPSRC, IUK, NERC, RE and STFC are not provided.
  3. BBSRC spend data for 2019/20 is based on an estimate of spend for that period.
  4. MRC and BBSRC spend data for 2020/21 is not currently available.
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