Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department provides for research on rare genetic disorders.

The Department remains committed to supporting research into rare diseases, and pioneering research is an underpinning theme of the UK Rare Diseases Framework. Since April 2022, the Department has invested over £2.2 million for the National Institute of Health and Care Research to carry out research programmes related to rare genetic diseases, and £341 million for Genomics England. This covers all funding allocated to Genomics England for the 2022/23 to 2024/25 financial years, including to deliver the National Genomic Research Library to enable research into rare genetic diseases, and for the Generation Study to evaluate the use of whole genome sequencing to diagnose rare genetic conditions in newborns.