Mental Health: Research
(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government spent on mental health research in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19, (e) 2019-20 and (f) 2020-21.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 4th November 2021
The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is the largest funder of mental health research in the United Kingdom. The following table shows the NIHR’s spending on mental health research from 2015/16 to 2019/20. Information on spending in 2020/21 is not yet available.
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2015/16 | £73,055,090 |
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2016/17 | £76,627,407 |
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2017/18 | £80,318,055 |
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2018/19 | £93,377,813 |
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2019/20 | £93,411,275 |
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