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New Technologies

Answer

SET Statistics provide a breakdown of Government R&D expenditure by primary purpose and Department. The following table outlines spend for the Department of Trade and Industry and other major Government Departments for 2003-04 on technology support and gives this as a percentage of the Department's total budget. The category technology support includes strategic as well as applied research, and pre-competitive research. These figures exclude funding of the research base under the Science Budget and are derived from SET statistics tables 3.6 and 3.10 available on the DTI website at http://www.dti.gov.uk/science/science-funding/ set-stats/govt-exp-r&d/index.htnml, hard copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

Analysis of net Government R&D expenditure by primary purpose and department—Dates covered: 2003-04
	Primary purpose A: General support (£ million)	As percentage of total department budget	Primary purpose B: Government services (£ million)	As percentage of total department budget
DEFRA	16.9	0.33	6.0	0.12
DIES	—	—	17.0	3.23
ODPM	0.3	0.01	3.2	0.07
DfT	0.1	0.00	10.6	0.16
DH (includes NHS)	2.8	0.00	557.6	0.95
DWP (formerly DSS)	—	—	12.1	0.01
HSC	—	—	—	—
HO	—	—	42.2	0.56
DCMS (formerly DNH)	6.2	0.22	0.8	0.03
DFID (formerly ODA)	—	—	214.9	5.49
DTI (ex OST)	—	—	—	—
NI departments	—	—	1.6	0.01
SE (formerly SO)	17.5	0.13	52.2	0.38
NAW (formerly WO)	4.5	0.07	18.1	0.28
FSA	—	—	—	—
Other departments	1.3	0.00	13.3	0.04
Total Civil Departments	49.7	0.03	949.5	0.55
MOD	—	—	2,676.6	8.92
Total Government	3,597.5	1.58	3,733.9	1.64

	Primary purpose C: Policy support (£ million)	As percentage of total department budget	Primary purpose D: Technology support (£ million)	As percentage of total department budget
DEFRA	128.8	2.52	29.2	0.57
DIES	33.8	6.42	1.2	0.23
ODPM	26.9	0.61	—	—
DfT	41.0	0.61	7.1	0.11
DH (includes NHS)	31.4	0.05	1.1	0.00
DWP (formerly DSS)	6.4	0.01	—	—
HSC	14.1	7.24	—	—
HO	5.7	0.08	—	—
DCMS (formerly DNH)	7.4	0.26	—	—
DFID (formerly ODA)	0.0	0.00	—	—
DTI (ex OST)	15.7	0.39	455.0	11.34
NI departments	19.1	0.16	—	—
SE (formerly SO)	20.5	0.15	38.3	0.28
NAW (formerly WO)	8.5	0.13	—	—
FSA	—	n/a	—	—
Other departments	11.4	0.04	4.2	0.01
Total Civil Departments	370.8	0.23	537.0	0.31
MOD	—	—	—	—
Total Government	421.6	0.19	610.4	0.27

	Total R&D (£ million)	As percentage of total department budget
DEFRA	181.0	3.55
DIES	52.0	9.88
ODPM	30.4	0.69
DfT	58.8	0.88
DH (includes NHS)	593.0	1.01
DWP (formerly DSS)	18.4	0.02
HSC	14.1	7.24
HO	48.0	0.64
DCMS (formerly DNH)	15.2	0.54
DFID (formerly ODA)	214.9	5.49
DTI (ex OST)	470.8	11.73
NI departments	20.6	0.18
SE (formerly SO)	128.5	0.93
NAW (formerly WO)	31.1	0.47
FSA	—	n/a
Other departments	30.2	0.09
Total Civil Departments	1,907.1	1.11
MOD	2,676.6	8.92
Total Government	8,363.4	3.68
Notes:
Definitions:
Primary Purpose A, general support for research—all basic and applied R&D which advances knowledge for its own sake; support for postgraduate research studentships (PhDs);
Primary Purpose B, Government services - R&D relevant to any aspect of Government service provision (all defence included here)
Source:
ONS Government R&D Survey

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

447 c1882-6W; 76806

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Department of Trade and Industry Technology Research

Link

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