Epilepsy: Research

(asked on 14th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much public money has been granted to research into epilepsy in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 21st January 2021

The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The figures for the NIHR’s epilepsy funding in each of the last five financial years is shown in the following table:

2014/2015

2015/2016

2016/2017

2017/2018

2019/2020

£2,986,689

£2,528,262

£1,561,313

£2,174,787

£2,143,181

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