Medical Research (Expenditure)

HC Deb 17 June 1964 vol 696 c192W

Mr. Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the amount of money spent by the Government on medical research for each of the past ten years.

Sir E. Boyle

The estimated amounts spent by the Government on medical research in each of the financial years in question are as follows:

1954–55	£5½ million;	1955–56	£6½ million;
1956–57	£7 million;	1957–58	£8 million;
1958–59	£9½ million;	1959–60	£10½ million;
1960–61	£12½ million;	1961–62	£14½ million;
1962–63	£16 million;	1963–64	£18½ million.

These figures include the estimated expenditure of the Health Departments, the Medical Research Council, the General Register Office, and the Air Ministry, together with the approximate amount which is estimated to be devoted to medical research out of the general grants made to the universities on the advice of the University Grants Committee.