To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department spent on research on reducing (a) carbon dioxide, (b) methane and (c) nitrous oxide emissions from domestic agriculture in the last five years. (278988)

DEFRA’s Farming and Food Science research programme in the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 has included a number of projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from domestic agriculture. Expenditure has been as follows: