Mental Health: Research
(asked on 18th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the Medical Research Council budget was spent on mental health research in each of the last three years to 2017-18.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2018
The Medical Research Council’s spend on research relating to directly to mental health and total research spend for 2014/15 to 2016/17 can be found in the table below. Data for 2017/18 is not yet available.
Year | Mental Health Research £m | MRC Total Research Expenditure £m |
2014/15 | £26m | £801m |
2015/16 | £25m | £928m |
2016/17 | £24m | £755m |