HIV Infection: Research
(asked on 24th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much from the public purse the Government spent on HIV research and development in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.
The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a partner organisation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, funds research relating to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) across all UKRI councils.
The latest spend figures available for research on HIV are as follows:
Financial expenditure | |||||
Funded by | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
NIHR | £8,087,542 | £5,786,318 | £6,153,681 | £7,341,078 | £8,310,996 |
UKRI* | £6,771,301 | £9,024,753 | £10,511,516 | £12,545,525 | £8,905,895 |
*collated data on expenditure for Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This includes payments due for 2022/23 financial year.