§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health the amount of money expended during the last three years, from public funds, in connection with cancer research work?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe expenditure from public funds directly assignable to cancer research during the three years ending 31st March, 1926, amounted to, approximately, £20,000, in addition to the use of a stock of radum worth £50,000, which is the property of the Government. This figure does not include any portion of the salaries of permanent officers of the Ministry of Health who are engaged in this work, nor does it take account of the cost, not readily estimated separately, of the work upon cancer undertaken by the scientific2352W staff of the Medical Research Council at the National Institute for Medical Research. The Council's expenditure upon research in the more primary parts of the medical sciences, which is as necessary for the solution of the cancer problem as the direct study of the disease itself, has also materially advanced the knowledge of the subject.