HC Deb 24 June 1968 vol 767 c20W
Mr. Edwin Wainwright

asked 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. Robinson

Details 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