Question reference: S5W-23665
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 6 June 2019
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided toward research on (a) strokes, (b) heart disease, (c) cancer, (d) hearing loss and (e) sight loss in each year since 2014.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO) provides funding to support health research in Scotland. The level of CSO funding that can be directly attributed to support research on a) stroke, b) heart disease, c) cancer, d) hearing loss and e) sight loss in each year from 2014 to 2018 is given in the following table.
The figures (rounded to the nearest thousand) combine: the funding committed to research projects and fellowships in these areas awarded in the given year; commitments to co-funded initiatives with medical research charities; annual allocations to the clinical research networks for stroke, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and ophthalmology; and annual contributions to the Institute of Hearing Research. 2019 data are not available.
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
a) Stroke | £1,443,000 | £2,340,000 | £811,000 | £1,455,000 | £1,215,000 |
b) Heart disease | £881,000 | £447,000 | £341,000 | £372,000 | £1,088,000 |
c) Cancer | £2,272,000 | £2,678,000 | £3,216,000 | £2,271,000 | £818,000 |
d) Hearing loss | £504,000 | £353,000 | £356,000 | £343,000 | £392,000 |
e) Sight Loss | £12,000 | £12,000 | £180,000 | £14,000 | £14,000 |