Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will fund research on using a skin test to detect hard-to-spot brain diseases.

The Department's National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including tests for biological markers of brain diseases. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.