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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Ms Walley: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the level of funding for research into environmental technologies in each of the last five years; and what funding is planned for 1997-98. [19330] Mr. Page: Support for research and development on technologies for a specific environmental function under the Environmental Technology Innovation Scheme, EUREKA-EUROENVIRON and the environmental technology best practice programme was as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year £ million 1992-93 2.91 1993-94 2.95 1994-95 2.53 1995-96 1.75 1996-97 (to 28 February 1997) 0.71 Total 10.85 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. That support includes programmes operated by both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment. Some of the research and development supported under general DTI programmes, such as the small firms merit award for research and technology, the support for products under research, LINK and other EUREKA activities and through the Office for Science and Technology's funding of research councils, will be relevant to environment technologies. Support for new and renewable energy technologies and clean coal technologies was as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year New and renewables Clean coal 1992-93 25.5 4.0 1993-94 25.2 7.8 1994-95 19.1 7.9 1995-96 18.3 7.7 1996-97 (to 31 December 1996) 10.2 3.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Estimates for 1997-98 will be published in the Department's expenditure plans report.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

19330; 292 c135W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Environment protection Industry Government assistance Technology Research Science

Contains statistics

Yes