Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their current assessment of coordination of motor neurone disease research via the MND Collaborative Partnership, co-funded by the medical research charity LifeArc and the motor neurone disease patient charities MND Association, My Name’5 Doddie Foundation and MND Scotland.

The MND Collaborative Partnership is monitored by the funding partners via quarterly reporting. The Partnership was launched to bring researchers together to speed the development of effective treatments for motor neurone disease. The Government, via the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, is co-funding the £4.25 million collaborative alongside LifeArc, My Name’5 Doddie, MND Association and MND Scotland. The Government is contributing a further £2 million to focus on gathering and analysing existing data.