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Mr. Donald Anderson
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the number of grants and their value for responsive mode funding for chemistry and materials by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the current funding year and comparable figures for the Science and Engineering Research Council in the previous three years. [36408]
Mr. Ian Taylor
The number of grants and their value for repsonsive mode funding in the chemistry and materials programme of the EPSRC, and figures for SERC in the previous three years, are given in the following table:
| Chemistry | Materials | |||
| Year | Number | Value £ Million | Number | Value £ Million |
| SERC(September-August) | ||||
| 1991–92 | 110 | 6.1 | 205 | 20.6 |
| 1992–93 | 180 | 12.5 | 330 | 44.2 |
| 1993–94 | 309 | 25.2 | 256 | 29.9 |
| EPSRC1(April-July) 1995 | ||||
| 1995 | 115 | 9.1 | 100 | 10.1 |
| 1The EPSRC came into effect on 1 April 1994 and introduced new procedures for awarding grants from April 1995. The period from September 1994 to April 1995 was an interregnum period in which no significant awards were made. | ||||