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A written answer from the Department of Health is as follows:
In summary, the MRC's funding for ME/CFS, for the year 2009-10, is as follows:
Grants given:
Total grants given: 116,103
Funds returned: -6,892
Total MRC funding figure for 2009/10 = 109,211 (This corresponds to the figure given in answers in parliament of 109,000)
Expenditure on CFS/ME research in 2009-10 was incurred through two projects funded by the Medical Research Council: a comparative trial of therapies for CFS; and a study examining the causes of chronic fatigue/ME and irritable bowel syndrome in the 1958 British Birth cohort, using data on health, family, education, and occupation gathered in childhood and adulthood before the illness develops. The total spend figure for 2009-10 also reflects a reconcilement payment arising from a completed project.
Details of the spend breakdown are as follows:
Professor P White et al - The PACE trial; A RCT of CBT, graded exercise, adaptive pacing and usual medical care for the chronic fatigue syndrome (73,405)
Dr C Clark - General and specific risk markers & preventive factors for chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndromes (42,698)
Dr A Wearden - Randomised controlled trial of nurse led self-help treatment for primary care patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (FINE) (-6,892*)
This figure related to a reconcilement payment at the end of the tenure of this grant.
In summary, the MRC's funding for ME/CFS, for the year 2009-10, is as follows:
Grants given:
73,405 (Professor P White et al - The PACE trial)
42,698 (Dr C Clark)
42,698 (Dr C Clark)
Total grants given: 116,103
Funds returned: -6,892
Total MRC funding figure for 2009/10 = 109,211 (This corresponds to the figure given in answers in parliament of 109,000)