§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how much his Department spent on research into schizophrenia in each of the last five years; and what proportion each figure was of expenditure on the Health Service research programme.
§ Mrs. CurrieIn addition to expenditure by the Medical Research Council, which receives its grant-in-aid from the Department of Education and Science, the Department's expenditure on directly commissioned mental illness research over the last five years is as follows.
Year Expenditure £000 Percentage of total budget1 1983–84 970 8.7 1984–85 942 8.9 1985–86 899 8.4 1986–87 1,005 8.1 1987–882 890 6.6 1 For directly commissioned health and personal social services research. 2 So far planned.