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Mr. Boateng
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give the latest available figures for Government-backed civil research and development for each year since 1983.
Mr. Butcher
[holding answer 23 June 1988]: The available information is given in the table:
| Government funding of research and development for civil objectives | |
| £ million | |
| 1983–84 | 2,011 |
| 1984–85 | 2,093 |
| 1985–86 | 2,185 |
| 1986–87 | 2,330 |