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Cancer

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his Department's strategy is for tackling cancer; and if he will make a statement; [243181]

(2) what his Department's strategy is for tackling prostate cancer; and if he will make a statement. [243182]

Ann Keen: In December 2007, the Government published the Cancer Reform Strategy, which sets out plans over the next five years to further improve and develop cancer services across England for all people with cancer. The strategy includes measures to improve cancer prevention, raise awareness among health professionals and the public of the signs and symptoms of cancer, speed up the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, reduce inequalities, improve the experience of people living with and beyond cancer, ensure care is delivered in the most appropriate settings, and that patients can access effective new treatments quickly. A copy has already been placed in the Library.

The first annual report for the strategy, ‘Cancer Reform Strategy: Maintaining momentum, building for the future’, published on 1 December 2008, shows that good progress is being made. A copy has been placed in the Library.

The strategy and first annual report include action to improve further the outcomes and services for men with prostate cancer, which is being taken forward by the NHS Prostate Cancer Programme, led by the National Cancer Director, Professor Mike Richards.

Cancer: Research

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much was spent on cancer research by the National Health Service in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007; [243183]


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(2) how much was spent on research into treatments for prostate cancer by the National Health Service in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003, (d) 2004, (e) 2005, (f) 2006 and (g) 2007; [243163]

(3) what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of funding dedicated to cancer research by the National Health Service; [243164]

(4) what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of funding provided for research into treatments for prostate cancer by the National Health Service; [243165]

(5) what plans he has for future levels of funding to the National Health Service for cancer research. [243166]

Ann Keen: The Department's cancer research expenditure and the information available in respect of expenditure on prostate cancer research is shown in the following table.

£ million

 All cancer research Prostate cancer research

2001-02

113

2.4

2002-03

124

3.3

2003-04

140

4.6

2004-05

150

4.6

2005-06

168

4.91

2006-07

161

4.61

2007-08

159

Not available

Notes:
1. Includes some estimated spend figures.

The figures for prostate cancer relate to national research programmes. They do not include expenditure on prostate cancer research from the research and development allocations made over the period concerned to national health service organisations. That information is not held centrally.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is the other main agency through which the Government support biomedical research. The MRC is an independent body funded by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. It funds a large portfolio of cancer research. Since 2001, the major funders of cancer research in the
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UK, including the Department and the MRC, have worked in partnership to streamline cancer research in the UK for the benefit of cancer patients. This partnership, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), has the role of maintaining strategic oversight of cancer research in the UK, identifying gaps and opportunities, and co-ordinating the funding activities of the partner organisations.

The NHS Prostate Cancer Programme published in September 2000 confirmed a substantial increase in Departmental funding for directly commissioned prostate cancer research. The annual levels of funding subsequently achieved represent a twenty-fold increase since 1999-2000. At the same time, a small number of centres of research excellence were established specifically to address the lack of critical mass in prostate cancer research. The work of these NCRI prostate cancer collaboratives is kept under regular review.

The usual practice of the Department's National Institute for Health Research and of the MRC is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. Future levels of expenditure on cancer research will be determined by the success of relevant bids for funding.

Charities

Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Health to which charities his Department has provided funding of more than £100,000 in each of the last three years; and how much was provided to each. [242426]

Phil Hope: Information on all departmental funding to charities is not available in the format requested from central records and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Information is available on funding through the Department's two main grant funding schemes for charities: Section 64 General Scheme of Grants and Opportunities for Volunteering, as well as a one-off scheme for funding to hospices. The following table shows grant awards of more than £100,000 per year through these schemes for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. This list is compiled from local records and is not exhaustive.


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Funding over £100,000 per year through Section 64 and OFV 2006-07 to 2008-09
Organisation name Type of grant/project name 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Action on Elder Abuse (AEA)

Section 64 Core funding

—

120,000

120,000

Acorn’s Children’s Hospice - Selly Oak

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

344,240

305,269

327,994

Acorn’s Children’s Hospice - Walsall

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

349,590

310,619

333,344

Acorn’s Children’s Hospice Trust - Worcester

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

335,240

300,000

320,400

Action on Smoking and Health

Section 64 Project: "Smoking Kills": the Next Steps

185,400

191,000

—

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

Section 64 Project: Capitalising on smokefree: the way forward

—

—

142,000

Age Concern England

Section 64 Project: Advocacy for Older People

58,003

140,000

217,580

Age Concern England

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

971,000

971,000

976,000

Alcohol Concern

Section 64: Capital: Purchase of premises

215,000

—

—

Alcohol Concern

Section 64 Core funding

440,000

400,000

400,000

Arthur Rank House

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

230,840

—

Ashgate Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

171,470

—

Attend

Section 64 Project: Accredited Training for Volunteer Programme Managers

150,228

153,400

155,000

Attend

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

539,000

540,200

543,000

Barnardos

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

194,500

194,500

196,000

Barnsley Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

607,900

—

Bassac

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

255,500

261,500

264,000

BIBIC

Social Enterprise Investment Fund Grant

0

750,000

0

Blackpool Tiggers/My Town Tiggers

Social Enterprise Investment Fund Grant

0

58,700

25,000

Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

155,900

155,900

155,900

Bolton Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

Brian House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

185,000

185,000

185,000

British Lung Foundation (BLF)

Section 64 Core funding

—

166,000

166,000

Bury Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

312,385

—

Butterwick Hospice (Stockton-on-Tees)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

274,730

—

Butterwick Hospice at Bishop Auckland

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

182,585

—

Butterwick House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

175,000

175,000

175,000

Cancer Research UK

Section 64 Project: SunSmart

150,000

104,000

110,000

Carers UK

Section 64 Core funding

195,000

125,000

125,000

Chase Hospice Care for Children

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

378,214

329,243

357,793

Chestnut Tree House

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

206,637

206,637

206,637

Child Migrants Trust

Section 64 Project: Family tracing & reunion service and post reunion support

—

220,000

250,000

Children’s Hospice South West

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

327,000

300,000

315,725

Children's Hospice South West (Charlton Farm)

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

0

257,000

257,000

Churches Together in England

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

243,000

243,000

245,000

Claire House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

324,614

300,000

314,575

Compton Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

154,125

—

Cope Children’s Trust trading as Rainbows Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

295,298

295,298

295,298

Core Arts

Social Enterprise Investment Fund Grant

0

400,000

0

Cotswold Care Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

600,000

—

Crisis

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

141,000

141,000

143,000

CSV

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

243,000

243,600

246,000

Delivering Connected Care in Hartlepool

Social Enterprise Unit Pathfinder Grant

0

152,305

0

Demelza James - East Sussex

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

101,748

101,748

101,748

Demelza James Hospice at Home - Sittingbourne

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

498,956

399,690

457,390

Derian House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

162,000

162,000

162,000

Disability Stockport

Social Enterprise Investment Fund Grant

0

481,660

0

Disabled Living Foundation (DLF)

Section 64 Core funding

100,000

100,000

100,000

Disabled Living Foundation (on behalf of the AT Alliance - DLF; RICAbility; Assist UK; FAST)

Section 64 Project: AT Information Network for the Future

—

—

100,000

Dorothy House Hospice Care

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

165,750

—

Douglas Macmillan Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

Dove House Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

293,200

—

Dr Kershaw's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

125,000

—

DrugScope

Section 64 Core funding

300,000

230,000

230,000

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices - (EACH) Ipswich

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

214,512

214,512

214,512

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices - (EACH) Milton

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

262,599

262,599

262,599

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices - (EACH) Quidenham

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

236,603

236,603

236,603

East Cheshire Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

East Lancashire Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

111,745

—

Eden Valley Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

139,815

—

Ellenor Foundation (Dartford)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

144,370

—

Ellenor Shining Lights

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

140,000

140,000

140,000

Fair Havens Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

174,805

—

Family Planning Association

Section 64 Core funding

140,000

130,000

130,000

Francis House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

350,000

311,029

333,754

Garden House Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

416,445

—

Grove House

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

160,950

—

Haemophilia Society, The

Section 64 Core funding

100,000

—

—

Halton Haven

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

193,000

—

Harlington Hospice Association

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

492,700

—

Haven House Foundation

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

200,000

200,000

200,000

Headway - the brain injury association

Section 64 Project: Increasing Participation and Access - Headway Link Project

106,020

108,631

55,184

Heart of Kent Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

286,000

—

Helen and Douglas House

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

250,000

250,000

250,000

High Peak Hospicecare (Blythe House)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

182,700

—

Hope House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

297,330

297,330

297,330

Hospice in the Weald

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

Hospice of St Francis

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

135,000

—

Hospiscare - Exeter

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

698,145

—

Isabel Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

166,415

—

Isabel Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

182,600

—

John Taylor Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

113,520

—

John Taylor Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

304,000

—

Joseph Weld Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

153,200

—

Katharine House Hospice (Banbury)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

490,000

—

Kirkwood Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

123,550

—

Lindsey Lodge Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

168,765

—

Ling Trust

Section 64 Project: The Easy Read Project

—

—

105,000

Lions Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

276,210

—

Little Haven’s Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

325,149

300,000

314,575

Lorica Learning Disabilities

Social Enterprise Unit Pathfinder Grant

0

103,000

0

LOROS Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Programme grant

—

500,000

—

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

10,000,000

4,000,000

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

110,700

—

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

Martin House

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

248,000

248,000

248,000

Martlets Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

345,425

—

Meadow House Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

246,835

—

MENCAP

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

359,000

359,000

362,000

Mencap (Royal Mencap Society)

Section 64 Core funding

110,000

110,000

110,000

Mildmay Mission Hospital

Section 64 Core funding

140,000

—

—

Mind

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

485,000

485,000

488,000

Myton Hamlet Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

310,000

—

NACRO

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

374,000

378,000

380,000

National AIDS Trust

Section 64 Core funding

120,000

110,000

110,000

National Association of Adult Placement Services

Section 64 Project: The development and dissemination of the Homeshare model through local authorities in England

127,410

131,690

—

National Heart Forum

Section 64 Core funding

280,000

315,000

315,000

North Devon Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

490,330

—

North London Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

235,675

—

Nottinghamshire Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

253,650

—

Oakhaven Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

Olive Branch NHSD Ltd./CALEB

Social Enterprise Investment Fund Grant

0

1,150,000

0

Overgate Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

195,000

—

Pasque Charity, Keech Cottage

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

265,608

265,608

265,608

Pasque Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

Peace Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

216,650

—

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

262,025

—

Primrose Hospice & Cancer Help Centre

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

141,230

—

Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health, The

Programme grant

300,000

300,000

—

Prince of Wales Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

298,175

—

Prospect Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

340,000

—

RADAR

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

301,000

301,600

303,000

Rape Crisis (paid via fund administered by Govt Equalities Office)

Programme grant

—

300,000

—

Renewing DCP’s vision

Social Enterprise Unit Pathfinder Grant

0

445,814

0

Richard House Children’s Hospice Trust

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

321,527

300,000

312,825

RNIB

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

126,400

126,700

128,000

Rowcroft - Torbay & S Devon Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

SCA Healthcare

Social Enterprise Unit Pathfinder Grant

0

811,600

0

Scope

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

141,000

141,000

143,000

Severn Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

140,450

—

Shakespeare Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

702,335

—

Shaping Our Lives: The National User Network (SOL)

Section 64 Project: Developing Diversity in Involvement: Getting beyond 'the usual suspects'

148,654

149,464

—

Shooting Star House Children’s Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

213,237

213,237

213,237

Springhill Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

423,225

—

St. Andrew’s Hospice (Grimsby)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

144,670

—

St. Ann’s Hospice (Cheadle)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

153,720

—

St. Ann's Hospice (Worsley)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

165,860

—

St. Barnabas Hospice (Lincoln)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

400,000

—

St. Barnabas Hospice (Worthing)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

446,000

—

St. Catherine's Hospice (Preston)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

650,000

—

St. Catherine's Specialist Palliative Centre (Crawley)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

183,560

—

St. Christopher's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

408,820

—

St. Clare Hospice (Harlow)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

155,100

—

St. Clare's Hospice (Jarrow)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

St. Cuthbert's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

418,820

—

St.. Elizabeth Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

297,575

—

St. Francis Hospice (Romford)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

601,290

—

St. Gemma’s Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

406,600

—

St. Giles Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

St. Helena Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

337,650

—

St. John’s Hospice (Lancaster)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

104,800

—

St. John’s Hospice (London)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

St. John’s Hospice (Wirral)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

358,420

—

St. Joseph’s Hospice (London)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

564,400

—

St. Joseph’s Hospice Association

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

310,000

—

St. Leonard’s Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

St Luke's Hospice (Cheshire)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

110,950

—

St Luke's Hospice (Plymouth)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

379,855

—

St Luke's Hospice (Sheffield)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

723,220

—

St Margaret's Hospice (Yeovil)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

180,000

—

St Margaret's Somerset Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

282,300

—

St Margaret's Somerset Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

250,000

—

St Mary's Hospice (Selly Park)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

300,000

—

St Mary's Hospice (Ulverston)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

202,000

—

St Mary's Hospice (Ulverston)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

300,000

—

St Michael's Hospice (Hastings)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

203,750

—

St Michael's Hospice (Hereford)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

266,740

—

St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

505,750

—

St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

130,000

—

St Nicholas' Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

221,900

—

St Oswald's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

498,455

—

St Peter & St James Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

278,950

—

St Peter's Hospice (Bristol - Brentry)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

120,000

—

St Peter's Hospice (Knowle- Bristol)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

185,000

—

St Raphael's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

184,340

—

St Rocco's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

616,650

—

St Teresa's Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

515,000

—

St Wilfrid's Hospice (Chichester)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

424,600

—

St. Andrews Hospice

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

245,000

245,000

245,000

St. Oswalds Hospice Limited

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

195,000

195,000

195,000

Starthere

Section 64 Project: Localised Countryside Database

100,000

—

—

Step by Step Living Network (SBS)

Section 64 Project: Self-Direction Support Brokerage

—

100,000

100,000

Sue Ryder Care - Henley

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

383,600

—

Sue Ryder Care — St. John’s

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

138,000

—

Sue Ryder Care (Cheltenham)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

400,000

—

Sue Ryder Specialist Palliative Care Centre (Peterborough)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

400,000

—

Tapping House Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

TB Alert

Section 64 Project: National support for commissioned TB services and tools for TB Awareness Raising at Local Level

—

226,958

43,042

Teesside Hospice Care Foundation

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

380,000

—

Templehead (was Rehab Suffolk)

Section 64 Project: Temple-Head- Eastern region project- new core

—

100,000

100,000

Terrence Higgins Trust

Section 64 Core funding

210,000

220,000

220,000

The Children's Society

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

214,000

214,000

215,000

The Donna Louise Trust

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

233,834

233,834

233,834

The Rowans Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

103,410

—

The Rowans Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

130,950

—

Trinity - the Hospice in the Fylde

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

240,000

—

Trinity Hospice (London)

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

UK Council on Deafness

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

155,600

157,000

158,000

Volunteering England

Section 64 Project: Enhancing volunteering in health and social care policy and practice

92,841

128,298

141,726

Volunteering England

Opportunities for Volunteering grant

1,941,000

1,941,000

1,956,000

Wakefield Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

576,915

—

Wessex Children’s Hospice Trust - Naomi House

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

330,000

300,000

317,475

Wigan and Leigh Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

205,500

—

Willowbrook Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

604,000

—

Woking Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

277,670

—

Woodlands Hospice

Dignity in Care for Older People programme

—

500,000

—

Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, Liverpool

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

200,000

175,000

175,000

Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, Middlesbrough

Children's Hospice & Children at Home Grant

200,000

195,000

195,000

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