HC Deb 10 November 1987 vol 122 c149W
Mr. Goodlad

To 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. Currie

In 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.

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