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Mr. Maxton
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide total Government spending on research and development in Scotland in constant terms in each year since 1973–74.
Mr. Lang
The information available is set out in the table below. It is an abstract from table 1.2.2 of the current version of the "Annual Review of Government Funded R & D 1991"—published by HMSO and available in the Library. Section 2.22 of that annual review contains a detailed description of the related activities funded by the Scottish Office. In addition, there is considerable spending by other Government Departments—such as the Department of Education and Science—in Scotland and by the research councils.
| £ million in real terms (base year 1989–90) full economic cost | |
| Outturn | (Estimated Figures) |
| £ million | |
| 1981–82 | 63·1 |
| 1982–83 | 61·8 |
| 1983–84 | 68·3 |
| 1984–85 | 70·0 |
| 1985–86 | 67·0 |
| 1986–87 | 64·3 |
| 1987–88 | 59·0 |
| 1988–89 | 58·8 |
| 1989–90 | 59·1 |
| 1990–91 | 58·2 |
| 1991–92 | 57·7 |
| 1992–93 | 53·5 |
| 1993–94 | 53·4 |