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Spina Bifida

Volume 504: debated on Thursday 28 January 2010

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David Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on research into spina bifida in each of the last three years. (313641)

Gillian Merron

The available information is shown in the following table.

Expenditure on spina bifida research

£ million

Department of Health

Medical Research Council

2006-07

n/a

0.2

2007-08

0.2

0.1

2008-09

0.4

0.2

n/a = not available

The Department funds the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. One of the unit's five work streams includes research on spina bifida. It is not possible separately to identify its cost.

In addition, the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network is providing NHS research infrastructure support to one study of relevance to the question.

David Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of people with spina bifida has lived to adulthood in each of the last 10 years. (313642)

Ann Keen

Information on the survival rates for people with spina bifida is not collected centrally.