HC Deb 24 November 1986 vol 106 c36W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give, for each year since 1979, the total sum devoted by the Medical Research Council to projects involving leukaemia.

Mr. Walden

Since 1979 expenditure by the Medical Research Council on research into leukaemia has been as follows:

Financial year £ million
1979–80 1.27
1980–81 1.73
1981–82 1.33
1982–83 1.40
1983–84 1.39
1984–85 1.38
1985–86 1.86