HC Deb 10 May 1996 vol 277 cc279-80W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much cash has been spent on Alzheimer's disease research by his Department in each year since 1989; and if he will make a statement. [28212]

Mr. Bowis

The main agency through which the Government support bio-medical and clinical research is the Medical Research Council which receives its grant-in-aid from the office of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade. My Department's policy research programme is contributing £750,000 to the MRC cognitive and ageing study between October 1990 and June 1996. Another study, "Husbands and wives who care for elderly people with dementia and functional psychiatric disorder", was undertaken at the Institute of Psychiatry and ended in December 1995; the total cost was £134,331.