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<p>The Department invests over £1 billion per year into health research, through the
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), whose research spending for all cancers
was £121.8 million in 2022/23. Funding for the delivery of brain cancer studies in
the National Health Service cannot be disaggregated from other studies, but to indicate
scale, in 2022/23 the NIHR Clinical Research Network supported 61 brain cancer studies
and recruited 4,317 participants to these studies.</p><p>Over the past five financial
years, the NIHR has spent over £11.3 million in funding for brain cancer research.
The following table shows the amount of funding awarded for brain cancer research,
from 2018/19 to 2022/23:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Funding
amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£2.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£150,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£2.2
million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£5.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£750,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£11.3
million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: the amount of funding awarded will differ
to actual spend in a given year, as total spending will include that of multi-year
awards made in previous years.</p><p>The NIHR funds research in response to proposals
received from scientists, rather than allocating funding to specific disease areas.
It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions.
Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards
made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services,
value for money, and scientific quality.</p><p>To increase the quality, diversity,
and number of brain cancer research proposals, the NIHR is working with the Tessa
Jowell Brain Cancer Mission and the research community, to develop research capacity
in the brain cancer community.</p>
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