Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase funding for research into childhood brain tumours, and to improve diagnosis, treatment, care and support for children with brain tumours and their families.

Further to the answer provided on 25 June in response to Question 9944, the National Institute for Health and Care Research has announced the co-funding of a new partnership alongside the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission and the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity to support the development of the next generation of specialists caring for children with brain tumours. Further details can be found at the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-and-partners-launch-paediatric-brain-tumour-fellowship