Written question asked by Stephen O'Brien (Conservative) on Tuesday, 27 January 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 2 February 2004. It was answered by Patricia Hewitt (Labour) on Monday, 2 February 2004 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much the Government has contributed to the funding of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland. - Inc figures.

Answer: Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much the Government have contributed to the funding of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland. [152105] Ms Hewitt: The Government have contributed a total of £361.88 million to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project since its commencement in 1995. The contributions have been made in three ways: (a) Construction of the LHC machine itself via the UK contribution to CERN (£214.57 million) (b) The UK element of the CERN share of funding for the LHC Detectors (£67.26 million) (c) UK domestic funding of the LHC Detectors (£80.05 million)

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 417 c646W; 152105
Session: 2003-04
Subjects: Finance Technology Research Science Switzerland Nuclear physics CERN
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk