Dementia: Research
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS funding was spent on dementia research in each year between 2019 and 2024.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Department delivers research into dementia via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Funding allocated to the NIHR is separate from National Health Service funding and is not calculated as a proportion of NHS spend. However, research delivered within the NHS is often supported by the NIHR, including research facilities and workforce, known as NIHR infrastructure.
The table below sets out a breakdown of NIHR spend for dementia research between financial years 2019/20 and 2023/24. Spend for dementia research is calculated retrospectively, with a time lag due to annual reporting cycles. Therefore, 2023/24 is the most recent year for which we have data.
£m | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | Total |
NIHR | 29 | 21.9 | 30.3 | 35.1 | 42.8 | 159.1 |
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