Written question tabled by Alex Easton (Independent (affiliation)) on Monday, 14 September 2026, in the House of Commons for the Department of Health and Social Care. It is due for an answer on Monday, 12 October 2026.

Cancer: Research

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for (a) brain cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) lung cancer, (d) bowel cancer and (e) prostate cancer research since 2018, what amount and what percentage of reported public research expenditure consisted of infrastructure, programme or other expenditure not directly attributable to a named research project or study; and by what methodology that expenditure was included within disease-specific research expenditure figures.

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