The available information is shown in the table.
Over the last 10 years, the main part of the Department's total expenditure on health research has been devolved to and managed by national health service organisations. Those organisations have since 2001-02 accounted for their use of the allocations they have received from the Department in an annual research and development report. The reports identify total, aggregated expenditure on a number of national priority areas, including cancer and coronary heart disease.
The Department does not routinely collect expenditure data at the level that would be required to answer the third part of the hon. Gentleman's question.
Details of individual projects supported in the NHS can be found on the national research register at www.dh.gov.uk/research.
Cancer1 Coronary heart disease2 1997-98 53 n/a 1998-99 75.4 n/a 1999-2000 77.4 n/a 2000-01 83.8 n/a 2001-02 113.4 n/a 2002-03 124.1 55 2003-04 139.8 53 2004-05 150.3 59 2005-06 168 59 n/a = not available 1 Spend as reported by national health service organisations and by the Department's national research programmes 2 Spend as reported by NHS organisations.