Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 113486

Eyesight: Research

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 26 February 2026

Question

Mark Pritchard

ConservativeThe Wrekin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of medical research funding has been allocated to eye research in each of the last five financial years; and what proportion of that funding has been directed towards age-related ma

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The Department invests over £1.6 billion each year on research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research. In the last five financial years it has awarded £26.2 million on eye research which has included £6.2 million on age related macula...

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