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Aids

Volume 165: debated on Tuesday 16 January 1990

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To ask the Prime Minister if she will list the Government Departments which have been or will be funding research into AIDS, giving the amount that each Department contributed to this work for 1989–90 and 1990–91; and if she will make a statement.

I have been asked to reply. The latest available information about expenditure by central Government on AIDS research in 1989–90 is as follows:

£
Medical Research Council113,100,000
Other Research Councils2,909,700
Department of Health496,000
Health Education Authority1,000,000
National Institute of Biological Standards and Control440,000
Public Health Laboratory Service1,100,000
Scottish Home and Health Department163,000
Overseas Development Administration533,306
1 Includes expenditure on work commissioned by the Department of Health.
Figures for 1990–91 are not yet available.