Written question asked by Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 28 February 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 March 2007. It was answered by Malcolm Wicks (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 March 2007 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Science: Expenditure

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proportion of the science budget was spent in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answer

[holding answer 5 March 2007]: Science Budget national expenditure for the period 2001 to 2006 are set out in the following table.

Science Budget national expenditures for the period 2001 to 2006
	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	£000	%	£000	%	£000	%	£000	%	£000	%
(a) Scotland	162,134	9.0	185,359	9.2	208,604	9.0	234,019	9.7	267,034	9.0
(b) Wales	39,787	2.2	49,605	2.5	49,311	2.1	55,792	2.3	67,002	2.3
(c) England	1,363,412	75.8	1,510,218	75.0	1,702,032	73.7	1,776,909	73.3	2,190,580	74.1
(d) N. Ireland	8,709	0.5	8,482	0.4	12,130	0.5	9,471	0.4	23,171	0.8
(e) Other including overseas, international subscriptions and Research Council central expenditure	223,907	12.5	259,731	12.9	338,800	14.7	346,495	14.3	406,930	13.8
Total¹	1,797,949	100	2,013,395	100	2,310,878	100	2,422,686	100	2,954,717	100
¹ A small number of minor lines of expenditure where statistics are not collected on a national basis have been excluded from the total. These include funding for the National Academies and for Science and Society activities.
Note:
A full breakdown of Research Council national expenditure was provided in the answer given to the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire on 4 December 2006, Official Report, column 15.

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