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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much money from the Government's science budget had been spent (a) in total, (b) in Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) in the City of York in each year since 1997. [188951] Ms Hewitt: Total science budget expenditure in each year from 1997-98 to 2002-03 was as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Science budget (£ million) 1997-98 1,331 1998-99 1,334 1999-2000 1,394 2000-01 1,514 2001-02 1,707 2002-03 2,032 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Research Council grants allocated to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Yorkshire and Humber and the City of York from 1997-98 to 2002-03 were as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total UK Research Council Yorkshire and Humber York grants 1997-98 534 39.6 6.5 1998-99 560 44.1 7.1 1999-2000 604 50.2 7.4 2000-01 695 57.1 8.7 2001-02 805 65.0 10 2002-03 820 66.5 11.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source : Higher Education Statistics Agency--Resources of Higher Education Institutions In addition, over this period, HEIs in Yorkshire and Humber received £117 million (of which £31 million went to the City of York) in infrastructure and knowledge transfer support, which was co-funded from the DfES and the OST science budget.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c1728-9W;424 c1726-7W; 188951

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Finance Public expenditure York Science Yorkshire and the Humber

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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