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<p>The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute
for Health Research (NIHR). The usual practice of NIHR is not to ring-fence funds
for expenditure on particular topics such as dementia. Research proposals in all areas
compete for the funding available. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research
into any aspect of human health including dementia. These applications are subject
to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis
of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for
money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends
on the volume and quality of scientific activity.</p><p>NIHR funding for dementia
research was £43.0 million in 2017/18, having grown from £27 million in 2013/14. Overall
public funding for dementia research continues to run well ahead of the Government’s
2020 Dementia Challenge commitment to maintain funding at £60 million a year. The
other main public funders of dementia research are the Medical Research Council, which
in 2017/18 spent £36.3 million, and the Economic and Social Research Council, which
spent £3.2 million, to bring total Government spending on dementia research to £82.5
million.</p>
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