§ Mr. K. Robinsonasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, the total expenditure of the Medical Research Council on research, and the proportion spent on research into mental health, for each year since 1945.
§ Mr. BevinsThe Medical Research Council's total expenditure on research for each year from 1945 was as follows:
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£ 1945–46 295,000 1946–47 415,000 1947–48 618,000 1948–49 770,000 1949–50 1,216,000 1950–51 1,363,671 1951–52 1,616,500 1952–53 1,505,917
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThe figures are as follows:
During the same period the Medical Research Council spent the following sums on research specifically into mental health:
£ 1945–46 3,311 1946–47 300 1947–48 984 1948–49 5,991 1949–50 14,963 1950–51 18,176 1951–52 21,780 1952–53 21,361 In addition to these sums, the Medical Research Council have, during this period, devoted a considerable proportion of their resources to researches into psychological and neurologicalproblems, which, in many cases, are closely related to those of mental health. In the year 1952–53, for example, over £51,000 was spent on research in psychology and over £42,000 on research in neurology.