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My noble friend Lady Donaghy asked about research. As I think she knows, for some years now, the DHSC has been working actively to try to stimulate an increase in the level of mesothelioma research activity. That includes a formal research priority-setting exercise, a National Cancer Research Institute workshop and a specific call for proposals through the National Institute for Health and Care Research. In addition, the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre has a long-standing programme of research to develop and improve treatments for mesothelioma, including personalised treatment pathways to identify which patients are likely to get the greatest benefit from different types of drug therapies.