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Mr. D. E. Thomas
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing all moneys expended by his Department in each year since 1974 on research, showing in each year the organisations to which funding was made available and the titles of the projects funded.
Mr. Peter Rees
The information requested is as follows:
| Total | National institute for economic and social research* | University of Cambridge: "Cambridge growth project" | Other bodies | Project | |||
| £,000 | £,000 | £,000 | £,000 | ||||
| 1974–75 | … | 125 | 90 | 35 | — | ||
| 1975–76 | … | 158 | 141 | 17 | |||
| 1976–77 | … | 180 | 151 | 22 | University College of North Wales | 4 | Industrial assessment project |
| Other | 3 | ||||||
| 1977–78 | … | 209 | 177 | 24 | Universtiy of Newcastle | 6 | Industrial assessment project |
| Other | 2 | ||||||
| 1978–79 | … | 215 | 195 | 19 | University of Newcastle | 1 | Industrial assessment project |
| 1979–80† | … | 290 | 211 | — | University of Stirling | 16 | Effects of taxation on labour supply |
| University College of London | 3 | Unemployment taxation and social security | |||||
| 3 | International conference on labour supply | ||||||
| 5 | Academic panel on Treasury model | ||||||
| Queen Mary College University of London | 5 | Unemployment in British Manufacturing | |||||
| 7·5 | Wharton forecasts | ||||||
| Cambridge Econometrics Limited | 13·5 | Econometrics | |||||
| Bangor University of North Wales | 3 | Risk and investment | |||||
| Various academic consultants | 7 | ||||||
| *manily macro-economic analysis and forecasting and research in the company sector | |||||||
| † provisional figures | |||||||