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Dept of Trade and Industry

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Mrs. Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what expenditure her Department and its agencies have made on research and development with overseas government laboratories or research establishments, including collaborative government funded laboratories and research establishments in each financial year since 2001-02. [201361] Ms Hewitt: The Department funds research and development with overseas government laboratories and research establishments through the UK Research Councils. A breakdown of significant international subscriptions and funding for overseas research centres by the Research Councils for each financial year since 2001-02 is given in the following table. Breakdown of international subscriptions by the Research Councils (£ million) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Research Council Organisation/Activity 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 EPSRC Institut Laue-Langevin 7.5 8.7 -- (ILL) European Synchrotron 5.0 5.5 -- Radiation Facility (ESRF) European Science 0.1 0.2 0.2 Foundation Total 12.6 14.4 0.2 CCLRC Institut Laue-Langevin -- -- 10.8 (ILL) European Synchrotron -- -- 6.1 Radiation Facility (ESRF) Total 0.0 0.0 16.9 MRC European Molecular 1.3 1.1 0.3 Biology Conference European Molecular 4.3 5.7 5.9 Biology Laboratory International Agency for 0.9 0.8 0.6 Research on Cancer Human Frontier Science 0.5 0.8 1.0 Programme Gambia and Uganda 12.8 13.5 14.2 centres Total 19.8 21.9 22.0 NERC Ocean Drilling Programme 2.0 2.0 1.0 (ODP) Integrated Ocean -- -- 0.7 Drilling Programme (IODP) European Space Agency -- -- 46.3 European Science -- 0.1 0.2 Foundation New Initiatives -- -- 0.5 Total 2.0 2.2 48.6 PPARC European Space Agency 28.7 34.5 46.9 Anglo-Australian 1.3 1.3 1.5 Telescope European Incoherent 0.5 0.5 ~0.6 Scatter Facility (EISCAT) European Organisation 69.4 68,9 73.1 for Nuclear Research (CERN) European Southern -- 10.7 15.0 Observatory (ESO) European Science 0.1 0.1 0.1 Foundation Total 100.0 116.0 137.2 Total 134.5 154.6 208.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: From 2003-04 responsibility for both ILL and ESRF have transferred to CCLRC from EPSRC

Secondary information

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Written question

Reference

201361; 431 c888-90W;431 c884-6W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Executive agencies Department of Trade and Industry Expenditure Government departments Research Government laboratories

Contains statistics

Yes

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