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.
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 |