Psychology
(asked on 3rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has invested in research into psychological therapies in each of the last four years.
The following table shows estimated expenditure on research on psychological therapies by the Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, and by the National Institute for Health (NIHR) through its research programmes and research fellowship schemes.
£ million
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Medical Research Council | 2.6 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 3.4 |
Economic and Social Research Council | n/a | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
National Institute for Health Research | 7.8 | 9.0 | 13.1 | 18.8 |
Total | 10.4 | 11.1 | 15.8 | 22.5 |
Total spend by the NIHR on research on psychological therapies is higher than this because expenditure on this topic by the NIHR Clinical Research Network and other NIHR research infrastructure cannot be fully disaggregated from total expenditure through these funding streams.