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Mr. William Ross
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many salmon were taken by commercial nets in the Foyle area by (a) drift nets, (b) draft nets, (c) fixed nets and (d) anglers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
Mr. Peter Bottomley
[holding answer 20 June 1990]: The information requested is as follows:was awarded on a customer-contractor basis; and what proportion of his total departmental budget was expended on research for each year.
Mr. Rifkind
The information is in the following table. All of it was awarded on a customer-contractor basis.
| £ million, cash | ||
| Expenditure on research | Percentage of departmental budget | |
| 1979–80 | 28·5 | 1·6 |
| 1980–81 | 35·7 | 1·5 |
| 1981–82 | 40·8 | 1·6 |
| 1982–83 | 42·8 | 1·4 |
| 1983–84 | 49·5 | 1·8 |
| 1984–85 | 53·3 | 1·8 |
| 1985–86 | 53·8 | 1·7 |
| 1986–87 | 53·4 | 1·6 |
| 1987–88 | 51·6 | 1·5 |
| 1988–89 | 54·6 | 1·4 |