§ Mr. DoddsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what resources were allocated to(a) research into and (b) treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in each year since 1997. [122641]
§ Dr. LadymanThe main Government agency for research into the causes and treatments of disease is the Medical Research Council (MRC), which receives its funding from the Department of Trade and Industry via the Office of Science and Technology. The MRC's expenditure on research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is shown in the table.
Because the MRC has changed the way in which information is kept, it does not have a set of complete records to compile figures for 1997–99 in this particular area.
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£ million 1999–2000 0.62 2000–01 0.63 2001–02 0.53 2002–03 not available Since 2001, the Economic and Social Research Council has funded a £45,000 research project on screening and interventions for inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity in school age children. These problems are associated with ADHD but are not by themselves definitive indicators of the disorder.
Expenditure on the treatment of ADHD is not separately identifiable within overall spending on child and adolescent mental health services.