§ 58. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the cost to the National Health Service of treatment for mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders in each of the past four years.
§ Mr. AlisonInformation is not available in the form requested. These conditions are treated both by general practitioners and in psychiatric and other hospitals; in neither case are details maintained of the cost of treatment of particular conditions. The cost in England of hospitals classified as for mental illness and for mental handicap was as follows:
£ million 1967–68 116.8 1968–69 127.6 1969–70 137.5 1970–71 162.3