To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many research contracts he has awarded to Warren Spring Laboratory in the last two years; if he will provide full details of each contract; and what arrangements for research into (a) vehicle emissions and (b) clean-up technology for oil spillages he envisages on the next 12 months.The following contracts have been let:

The Transport Research Laboratory became an executive agency on 1 April 1992, and expenditure information was published in the "Department of Transport Report 1993", Cm 2206. It is repeated in the table for the years in question.