Funding for specified cancer treatments
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From: Luke
Dear Ministry of Health,
Can you please provide a funding breakdown for the research into, and treatment of, the following cancers each year for the past five years?
(a) Breast cancer;
(b) Prostate cancer;
(c) Melanoma;
(d) Lung cancer; and
(e) Bowel cancer.
Can you also provide data on the number of people being treated for each cancer each year for the last five years, broken down by gender and ethnicity?
This request is directed to the Ministry of Health, however, should other agencies be better placed to respond to this request, then my apologies, could you please transfer this request to them.
Yours faithfully,
Luke
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From: Luke
Dear OIA Requests,
I note that the Health Research Council has not responded to me since you transferred this request to them.
It’s possible that this is in error - can you please confirm that the HRC has not responded?
Yours sincerely,
Luke
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Kia ora Luke,
Thank you for following up. We apologise the transfer did not get actioned in time due to administrative error. It has now been processed and you can expect a reply from HRC within 20 working days.
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services Team
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