Question reference: S6W-26210
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 15 March 2024
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Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 8 April 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on cancer research in each year since 2011-12 in (a) cash terms and (b) real terms, broken down by spending through (i) NHS Research Scotland and (ii) other routes.
Answer
Within the Scottish Government, funding for Health and Care Research comes under the policy remit of the Chief Scientist Office (CSO)
(A) The following table provides the amount in cash terms of CSO cancer research funding per year from 2011-12
Column 1 - NHS Research Scotland (NRS) - includes funding for the NRS Cancer Research Network; the CSO component of funding for the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres in Edinburgh and Glasgow (co-funded 50:50 with Cancer Research UK); NRS Career Research Fellowships in cancer
Column 2 - Direct Funding - includes cancer projects funded through the CSO grant funding committees; Academic Fellowships in cancer funded through the CSO capacity building programmes; the CSO component of collaborative research project and fellowship funding with cancer research charities
Column 3 - total CSO cancer research funding by year
To note - for multi-year projects and fellowships, the funding figure is allocated to the year corresponding to the start date (in the case of cancer charity collaborations the funding is allocated to the year of the collaboration agreement)
Year | NRS Funding | Direct Funding | Total |
2011-12 | £732,970 | £995,032 | £1,728,002 |
2012-13 | £763,000 | £1,563,914 | £2,326,914 |
2013-14 | £763,000 | £1,088,269 | £1,851,269 |
2014-15 | £788,000 | £1,611,355 | £2,399,355 |
2015-16 | £950,630 | £2,141,606 | £3,092,236 |
2016-17 | £929,012 | £1,511,937 | £2,440,949 |
2017-18 | £927,723 | £2,287,604 | £3,215,327 |
2018-19 | £958,199 | £1,405,126 | £2,363,325 |
2019-20 | £911,529 | £1,806,406 | £2,717,935 |
2020-21 | £1,092,364 | £479,459 | £1,571,823 |
2021-22 | £825,000 | £1,354,584 | £2,179,584 |
2022-23 | £860,000 | £2,332,504 | £3,192,504 |
2023-24 | £1,112,434 | £1,233,269 | £2,345,703 |
From 1 April 2006 a recurring investment of £500,000 was incorporated into the NHS Boards unified budgets to support the NHS Cancer Research Network which would be subject to the annual uplift applied to Boards’ baseline budgets - this has not been included in the above table
(B) The Scottish Government does not hold this information.