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<p>The Government is dedicated to supporting research into dementia, and has committed
to doubling the funding for dementia research to £160 million per year by the end
of 2024/25. The Government’s responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared
between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National
Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science Innovation
and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation.</p><p>In 2022/23,
the most recent year we have data for, we estimate that total Government spend on
dementia research was £96.9 million. Spend is dependent on the number and quality
of applications received, as well as the volume of research that requires infrastructure
support, therefore research spend can only be calculated retrospectively after the
end of the financial year.</p><p>The Government is making significant progress towards
meeting the commitment and has instigated momentous new programmes of work, for instance
investing almost £50 million over five years into the NIHR’s Dementia Translational
Research Collaboration Trial Network, which will expand the United Kingdom’s early
phase clinical trial capabilities in dementia, speeding up the development of new
treatments. A new Clinical Trials Delivery Accelerator focused on dementia was also
announced in the Autumn Statement 2023, with up to £20 million of funding to help
innovation reach National Health Service patients even faster. Many new initiatives
and research projects will begin to spend in 2024/25.</p>
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