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Written question asked by Adam Afriyie (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 3 March 2010. It was answered by David Lammy (Labour) on Wednesday, 3 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Science: Finance

Question
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what programmes and initiatives received funding from the other minor science programmes budget referred to in Table 11 of his Department's Departmental Report for 2009; and how much such funding was allocated to each such programme and initiative in the latest year for which figures are available.
Answer

The "Other minor science programmes" line in Table 11 of the Departmental Report covers a number of smaller programmes as detailed below. The figures for 2009-10 are:

£ million
Public Sector Research Establishments Fund 12.5
Science and Society activities 15.4
Government Office for Science 2.9
Contribution to the funding of the FCO Science and Innovation Network 2.9
Research Base Initiatives 0.4
Provision for additional allocations to NERC and STFC to cover the increased costs of international subscriptions resulting from exchange rate movements 30.0
Loan Repayment 43.0

The loan repayment relates to an intra-Departmental loan from Departmental non-science budgets that was made in 2007-08.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
506 c1229-30W; 318919
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Finance Science
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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