Dementia: Research
(asked on 26th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much government funding was allocated to dementia research in each of the last five years.
Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), mainly by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The following table shows the amount spent on dementia research by these funders for the last five years.
£ million | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
NIHR | 43 | 31.6 | 29 | 21.9 | 31.3 |
MRC | 34.9 | 56.5 | 44 | 46.9 | 41.6 |
ESRC | 4 | 7.4 | 5.9 | 8 | 7.4 |
Total | 81.9 | 95.5 | 78.9 | 76.8 | 80.3 |