§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the Minister of Health the amount of expenditure on the maintenance of lunatics in lunatic asylums during the years 1924–25 and 1925–20?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINFor the financial year 1924–25 the amount of expenditure on the maintenance, supervision and treatment of the insane in county and borough mental hospitals in England and Wales was £6,510,639. This amount does not include any expenditure in respect of loan charges, repairs, additions and alterations of buildings, or purchase or rental of land and buildings. Particulars not yet available for 1925–26.