Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget of the Small Business Research Initiative Healthcare was in each financial year since 2009-10.
The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare has been the remit of NHS England since 2013 and the budget for SBRI Healthcare for the financial years since 2013/14 is shown in the following table. Records of the budgets prior to the programme being owned by NHS England are not held.
2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
£10 million | £20 million | £20 million | £12.9 million | £12.9 million | £17.9 million | £5.2 million |
Note:
The figures relate to SBRI Healthcare and not SBRI budgets for other programmes. The difference in funding between 2018/19 and 2019/20 is due to a change in suppliers for the programme’s Programme Management function. This means extra funding was provided in 2018/19 to prepare for transition between suppliers, and a reduction in 2019/20 until the new supplier is fully established.