Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to brain tumour research in each of the last five years.

In May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research as part of the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.

Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support a wide range of research from early translation (experimental medicine) through clinical and on to applied research. We are relying on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this difficult area. To encourage such applications we have released an NIHR Highlight Notice on brain tumour research calling for proposals across a range of NIHR research funding programmes.

Total spend over the last five years is shown in the following table: