Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he intends to (a) maintain, (b) increase or (c) decrease scientific and medical research spending in real terms over the next (i) one year and (ii) five years.

This Government has made a long term commitment to science capital funding which has risen to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and will increase in line with inflation out to 2020-21.

Future funding allocations for science resource funding, including medical research, will be determined at the forthcoming Spending Review.