The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills was created at the end of June 2007. Since then, the Department has paid to Sciencewise projects (Sciencewise is a programme funded by the Government to help policy makers find out people's views on emerging areas of science and technology so that they can take these into account when making national policy decisions) the following amounts, broken down by month:
Month Spend July 2007 98,652.19 August 2007 6,378.22 September 2007 60,000.00 October 2007 36,067.93 November 2007 3,177.92 December 2007 19,847.47 January 2008 0 February 2008 22,437.64
The Department has also held five student juries as preliminary work to the National Student Forum which took place on the following dates and locations:
Date Location 30 November 2007 London 28 January 2008 Manchester 31 January 2008 London 1 February 2008 Bristol 4 February 2008 Sheffield
The costs for these juries totalled just over £30,600.