Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support charities which are researching Type 1 diabetes.

The Department supports research charities, including those researching type 1 diabetes, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Research England’s Quality Related Charity Research Support Fund. This includes supporting the charity-funded ADDRESS-2 diabetes research database resource through the NIHR’s Clinical Research Network.

The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy announced a £20 million initiative to support medical research charity-funded early career researchers. All fundraising medical research charities in the United Kingdom, including charities researching type 1 diabetes, which have funded an early career researcher in 2021/22 were eligible to apply.