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<p>The Department welcomes the All-Party Parliamentary Group report. We are taking
steps to ensure that funders work closely together to coordinate work along the translational
pathway, from the discovery and early translational science typically supported by
the MRC, feeding through to the applied health and care research funded by the NIHR.</p><p>It
is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. As
with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding
for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven
by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding
applications.</p><p>NIHR is taking action to help researchers develop high-quality
proposals, including working with the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission on workshops
and courses for applications in development. Similarly, the NIHR Research Support
Service will support researchers applying for funding with expert advice, to help
them develop the best funding applications.</p>
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