Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase access to early phase cancer clinical trials for brain tumour patients.

The Department invests in health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). NIHR has recently invested over £969 million to strengthen the infrastructure supporting Phase 1 trial capacity over the next five years. This includes funding for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, NIHR Clinical Research Facilities and Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres.

Additionally, NIHR ‘Be Part of Research’ is an online service, now also available on the NHS App, to help people find and take part in health care research including cancer studies.