To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding his Department has spent on cancer research in each year since 2015.
Answered on
2 December 2022
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a partner organisation of BEIS, funds research relating to cancer across all UKRI councils.
The table below presents spend data for each of the relevant Research Councils for each year from 2015/16 to 2020/21.
Cancer research
Year | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
UKRI spend £m[i] | 98.1 | 116.9 | 109 | 114.4 | 119.1 | 125.5 |
MRC spend £m | 96.2 | 102.7 | 93.4 | 96.3 | 101.6 | 106.6 |
BBSRC spend £m | Data not available | 12.9 | 14.3 | 15.2 | 14.2 | 15.2 |
ESRC spend £m | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
Notes on cancer research figures
- Spend figures include data provided by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC).
- Spend data for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK (IUK), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Research England (RE) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are not provided.
- BBSRC spend data for 2015/16 is unavailable.
- MRC and BBSRC spend is provided by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI). Spend is based on the percentage of each research project that is relevant to cancer research.
- ESRC total spend for each relevant grant is included in the data above.
- BBSRC spend figures represent underpinning bioscience research relevant to cancer. BBSRC does not fund research directly to understanding specific human diseases.
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy