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Mr. D. E. Thomas
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 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. Rossi
The information readily available concerns outside organisations who have initiated research on projects for which they have received funds from Northern Ireland Departments and is as follows:
| Department | Organisation | Project | 1974–75 | 1975–76 | 1976–77 | 1977–78 | 1978–79 | |||||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||||||||
| Agriculture | … | … | Agricultural Research Institute | … | Ongoing research projects into aspects of crop and animal production, with special emphasis on means of increasing output from grassland | 396,800 | 508,700 | 478,900 | 583,900 | 635,000 | ||
| Commerce | … | … | New University of Ulster | … | Heat pump research | … | … | — | — | 7,900 | 2,006 | — |
| Education | … | … | New University of Ulster | … | Schools cultural studies | … | … | 1,694 | 9,643 | 6,500 | 7,600 | 11,963 |
| Queen's University, Belfast | … | Community education pilot scheme | — | — | 7,248 | 45,040 | 16,123 | |||||
| New University of Ulster | … | Community actions research and education | — | — | — | — | 5,840 | |||||
| Steering Committee on Project | … | Community worker research | … | — | — | — | 35 | 14,808 | ||||
| Queen's University, Belfast | … | Community education senior research fellowship | — | — | — | — | 4,360 | |||||
| New University of Ulster | … | Home/school links | … | … | — | — | — | — | 10,269 | |||
| Manpower Services | … | Industrial Training Service | … | West Belfast unemployment | … | — | — | 4,841 | 1,039 | — | ||
| PA Management Consultants and Industrial Training Service | Marketing training needs in Northern Ireland | — | — | — | — | 27,075 | ||||||
| In addition to the above figures some outside research may have been carried out with assistance from Department of Environment (DOE(NI)) and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS(NI)) but it is not readily identifiable and the amounts are believed to be insignificant. | ||||||||||||