Cancer: Research

(asked on 7th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of funding for clinical cancer research has been spent in each region of the UK in the latest period for which data is available.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 13th June 2022

This information is not collected in the format requested. The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The following table provides expenditure on all health and care cancer research in 2020/21 by the NIHR’s Local Clinical Research Network regions.

Region

Expenditure

East Midlands

£2,173,608

Eastern

£9,360,055

Greater Manchester

£7,358,350

Kent, Surrey and Sussex

£800,978

North East and North Cumbria

£1,744,994

North Thames

£10,405,198

North West Coast

£1,417,034

North West London

£14,435,486

South London

£3,669,719

South West Peninsula

£1,466,125

Thames Valley and South Midlands

£5,167,781

Wessex

£2,217,572

West Midlands

£3,381,748

West of England

£2,199,194

Yorkshire and Humber

£5,762,533

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