Speeches

Derek Thomas – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Thomas on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by his Department on research into brain tumours in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.

George Freeman

The information requested is not available. Spend on research funded directly by the Department’s National Institute for Health Research is categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories including ‘cancer’. There are no HRCS health sub-categories, such as for brain tumours or other cancer sites.