Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they are allocating to (1) sepsis research, and (2) cancer research; and whether there are any planned changes to that funding.

The Department invests over £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including sepsis research and cancer research.

As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area, is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.