Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what is the estimated total cost to the public purse of the Our Future Health research programme.

As announced in the Life Sciences Sector Plan, the government allocated £354m CDEL R&D Spending Review phase 2 funding from 2026/27 to 2029/30 to Our Future Health to become the largest longitudinal health research cohort and clinical trials resource in the world, with up to 5 million consented participants by 2030. This follows earlier investment of £58m CDEL R&D in 2026/27 from Spending Review phase 1, £79m CDEL R&D from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which established the programme, and £81m CDEL R&D from repurposed underspend to fund additional objectives.