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Departmental Research (Expenditure)

Volume 175: debated on Thursday 28 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total identifiable expenditure on research by his Department in each year since 1979; what proportion was awarded on a customer-contractor basis; and what proportion of his total departmental budget was expended on research for each year.

All of the expenditure will have been based on the customer-contractor principle, and the information is shown in the table:

Total departmental expenditure on R&D £ millionProportion of departmental budget per cent.
1979–801·10·15
1980–811·10·13
1981–821·60·17
1982–831·60·14
1983–841·30·11
1984–851·60·13
1985–862·60·20
1986–873·50·24
1987–881·90·12
1988–892·00·12