How much funding it has contributed to research into motor neurone disease in each of the last three years and how much it is contributing …

The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into healthcare needs in Scotland. The CSO is largely a response mode funder of research and this role is well advertised throughout the healthcare and academic community. The CSO has not funded any research projects in the last three years into motor neurone disease and is not currently contributing funding for research in this area. The CSO would be pleased to consider proposals for research on motor neurone disease which would be subject to the usual peer and committee review.