National Institute for Health Research: Grants
(asked on 10th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) amount and (b) proportion of the grants awarded by the National Institute for Health Research have been related to mental health in each of the last five years.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) awards funding of varying durations through a wide range of research programmes, research training and career development schemes, and funding streams for research infrastructure, systems and support services.
Spend on research funded directly by the NIHR has been categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health categories. NIHR expenditure on research infrastructure, systems and support services where spend cannot be attributed to health categories is excluded. The following table shows NIHR spend in the ‘mental health’ category, and this spend as a proportion of total categorised spend and as a proportion of total revenue expenditure.
NIHR spend in ‘mental health’ HRCS health category | |||
| Proportion of total categorised NIHR spend % | Proportion of total NIHR revenue spend % | |
2010/11 | 49.8 | 9.0 | 5.4 |
2011/12 | 53.2 | 9.0 | 5.8 |
2012/13 | 70.0 | 9.5 | 7.3 |
2013/14 | 71.7 | 9.5 | 7.3 |
2014/15 | 72.6 | 9.0 | 7.4 |