Science and Technology Facilities Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what subscription payments to which organisations the Science and Technology Facilities Council is expected to make in financial year 2008-09. (191867)

The STFC informed me that they expect to make the following subscription payments in financial year 2008-09:

	£ million
European Southern Observatory (ESO)	24.3
European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT)	0.3
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)	81.6
Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT)	0.4
European Science Foundation (ESF)	0.1
European Space Agency (ESA)	72.4
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)	7.3
Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)	14.9
Gemini Observatory	3.6
Total	205.2

Volume 474: debated on Wednesday 26 March 2008