AQW 29374/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to detail what investment his Department has made into research of early diagnostic tools for pancreatic cancer in each of the last five years.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 26 June 2025
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 26 June 2025
- Answer due by
- 11 July 2025
- Answered
- 8 July 202512 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Department funds research infrastructure which supports research into cancer and diagnostics. This infrastructure facilitates cancer research, which could include research into early diagnostic tools for pancreatic cancer. Relevant infrastructure funding awarded over the last five years is summarized below:
| 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | 2023-2024 | 2024-2025 | |
| NI Cancer Trials Network | 3,411,000 | 3,411,000 | 3,411,000 | 3,240,000 | 3,200,000 |
| National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) | 1,195,242 | 1,246,483 | 1,170,756 | 1,248,949 | 1,264,524 |
| NI Biobank | 473,293 | 357,255 | 336,815 | 294,064 | 532,492 |
| Total | 5,079,535 | 5,014,738 | 4,918,571 | 4,783,013 | 4,997,016 |
Researchers utilise this infrastructure to support funding applications for specific research projects or programmes, including those related to cancer. However, the Department does not hold information on funding obtained for specific projects.