To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give the capital programmes for the national engineering laboratory at East Kilbride, for each year since 1979 in actual and real terms and the projected capital programmes.

[holding answer 29 April 1988]: A detailed breakdown of the full economic cost of the programmes since 1979 is attached at table 1. They were funded partly by industry but mainly by Government.Table 2 gives the same figures converted to 1987 values using the index of manufacturing costs, which seems the most appropriate conversion. (Table 3 gives the index used, taken from the wholesale price indices for manufactured products excluding food, drink and tobacco.)Table 4 gives the projected spends on research programmes for the years 1988–92 according to the corporate plan approved by the laboratory's supervisory board. The figures are grouped into the five major headings of flow measurement, fluids and heat (including biotechnology), structures, materials and engineering systems. The corporate plan may be changed in the light of the forthcoming departmental review of all the DTI research establishments announced in the White Paper "DTI the department for Enterprise (Cm. 278)" of January 1988.