Written question asked by Adam Afriyie (Conservative) on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 4 March 2010. It was answered by David Lammy (Labour) on Thursday, 4 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Science: Research

Question: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding had been (a) allocated to and (b) disbursed from the Science and Research Budget to the (i) Large Facilities Capital fund, (ii) University Capital fund, (iii) Higher Education Innovation fund, (iv) Public Sector Research Establishments fund, (v) Science and Society fund and (vi) other programmes funded from that Budget in 2009-10 on the latest date for which figures are available.

Answer

The Science and Research Budget funding figures for 2009-10 are as follows:

£ million
	Allocated 2009-10	Expenditure to 31 January 2010
(i) Large Facilities Capital Fund¹	138	³—
(ii) Research Capital investment Fund¹	258	194
(iii) Higher Education Innovation Fund²	99	73
(iv) Public Sector Research Establishments Fund²	12	11
(v) Science and Society activities²	15	10
(vi) Other programmes²	9	5
¹ Capital programme. ² Near Cash programme. ³ There is no expenditure recorded against the Large Facilities Capital Fund as this fund is used to make additional allocations to research councils for approved projects. To date £172 million has been allocated to research councils which includes £50 million of capital allocation brought forwards from 2010-11 under the capital acceleration scheme. Note: These figures do not include the allocations to and the expenditure of the research councils and the national academies.

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