Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 122700

Brain Cancer: Research

Tabled: 23 March 2026
Answered: 30 March 2026

Question

Cat Smith

LabourLancaster and Wyre

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to early-stage and discovery brain cancer research in the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of that funding for building a pipelin

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Government responsibility for delivering cancer research is shared between the Department for Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Tec...

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