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Research

Volume 951: debated on Tuesday 13 June 1978

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the overall Department of Health and Social Security budget for research; and what proportion of this budget is spent on: (a) research into mental illness and (b) research into mental handicap.

The overall Department of Health and Social Security budget for research—for the year ended 31st March 1977—was nearly £20·9 million. Of this, expenditure on research into mental illness accounted for about £2·4 million—11 per cent.—and research into mental handicap about £420,000–2 per cent. These figures exclude expenditure, not readily quantifiable, on research not specifically directed to those two subjects, which may have some relevance to the advance of knowledge about them.