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Departmental Expenditure

Volume 195: debated on Thursday 25 July 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the final outturn, and what is the present forecast of schemes presented in tables 11 and 12 of his Department's expenditure plans; what were the figures for 1990–91 and 1991–92; and what was the outturn for 1989–90 in real terms.

The information requested is set out in the following tables.

Table 1
Collaborative R&D: Outputs
Outturn 1989–90Outturn 1990–91Forecast 1991–92
Link1
Number of
Programmes1163
Projects389075
Participants123309230
SMEs195138
Total Project costs (£m)23.1(26.6)243.445
Eureka
Number of Projects101835
Participants232140
SMEs10410
Total UK eligible
Project costs (£m)9.9(11.4)23260
Outturn 1989–90Outturn 1990–91Forecast 1991–92
Advanced Technology Programmes
Number of Programmes868
Projects895864
Participants164222254
SMEs696472
Total Project costs
(£m)74(85.3)244.350.7
Research and Technology Organisations
Number of
Programmes191920
Projects14642100
Total Project costs (£m)36.4(42.0)221.237
Table 2
Industrial Innovation Expenditure£ million
ProgrammeOutturn 1989–90Outturn 1990–91Forecast 1991–92Forecast 1992–93Forecast 1993–94
Collaborative R and D
Closed schemes21840·5
Open schemes3745.75596170
Technology Transfer and Other R and D18(11)118.382321·520
Single Company Support
Closed schemes112.21
SMART and New schemes69·17131720
93(86)183·5100100110
1 The figures in brackets relate to £7 million transferred from the Innovation Budget to the Measurement and Technology Support Budget.
The outturn of £93 million in 1989–90 represents £107·2 million in real terms (uprated to 1991–92 prices using the GDP deflators described in Note 2 to Table 1 above).