§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the total expenditure by Her Majesty's Government upon the health education programme relating to heart disease in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what is the total expenditure estimated to be in the current financial year.
§ Mr. DorrellThe health education programme relating to heart disease in England is the "Look After Your Heart" programme, run jointly by the Department of Health and Health Education Authority. Launched in April 1987, total expenditure on the programme is as follows:
£ 1986–87 465,000 1987–88 2.5 million 1988–89 4.55 million 1989–90 4.4 million 1990–91 1 4.907 million 1 Estimated. The figures do not take into account funds for associated life style work, such as activity on smoking, cancer preventions, nutrition and so on.
§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has concerning the total funding from Government sources made available to research into heart disease in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the total such expenditure is estimated to be in the current financial year.
§ Mr. DorrellThe Medical Research Council (MRC), which receives its grant in aid from the Department of Education and Science, is the main agency through which the Government support biomedical and clinical research in the United Kingdom. During the period 1985–86 to 1989–90, the MRC spent £24.3 million on research into cardiovascular disease as follows:
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£ million 1985–86 4.6 1986–87 4.3 1987–88 4.6 1988–89 5.3 1989–90 5.5 An estimate for the current financial year, 1990–91, is not available.
In addition, the Department directly funded some £0.25 million of research into heart disease and related conditions in 1989–90 and plans to spend a similar sum in 1990–91. Information on research in previous years is available in the Department of Health's yearbook of research and development, copies of which are available in the Library. Information on research into cardiovascular disease funded by other agencies is not collected centrally.