HC Deb 15 February 1954 vol 523 cc183-4W
Mr. K. Robinson

asked 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. Bevins

The Medical Research Council's total expenditure on research for each year from 1945 was as follows:

£
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 Fyfe

The 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.