To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the implementation of the proposals in his Department's policy paper, Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery; and what funding has been allocated to the longer-term implementation of those proposals.
Answered on
14 March 2022
In June 2021, a phase one implementation plan was published setting out deliverables for 2021/22 and a six-month progress update was published in December 2021. The development of the phase two implementation plan is ongoing, following the outcome of the 2021 Spending Review and further information will be published later this year.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Health and Social Care recently announced up to £200 million to support National Health Service-led research into diagnostics and treatment through new privacy-preserving platforms and clinical research services.