§ Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Minister of Health what was the cost to the National Health Service of treatment for mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonDetails of the treatment of mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders by general practitioners, hospitals other than psychiatric hospitals, and local authority health and welfare services other than their mental health services are not recorded in ways which would enable overall estimates of cost to be made.
Identifiable expenditure in England and Wales on running psychiatric hospitals, including the special hospitals, and local authority mental health services in each of the last five years was as follows:
£ million 1963–64 … … 103 1964–65 … … 112 1965–66 … … 123 1966–67 … … 134 1967–68 (estimated) … … 143