Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of necrotising enterocolitis.

The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds clinical, public health, and social care research and works in partnership with the National Health Service, universities, local government, other research funders, patients, and the public, and has funded a range of studies investigating the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of necrotising enterocolitis. NIHR-supported research improved understanding of disease processes, supporting better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In the last five financial years, from 2020/21 to 2024/25, through the NIHR, the Department committed £5.65 million for new research projects alongside supporting infrastructure into necrotising enterocolitis research. Further information about the awards is available at the following link:

https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/?query=necrotizing%20enterocolitis