[holding answer 9 September 2009]: Direct contract payments made from the Science Innovation Technology (SIT) budget on equipment and non-equipment contracts and those where the primary work was identified as being undertaken in Scotland are shown in the following table.
Total Expenditure in Year - Scotland Total Expenditure in Year -SIT Proportion of SIT Expenditure in Year in Scotland (%) 2003-04 4 392 1.0 2004-05 9 471 1.9 2005-06 10 500 2.0 2006-07 11 488 2.3 2007-08 12 531 2.3 2008-09 10 509 2.0 Note: Rounded to the nearest £ million
Requested information prior to 2003-04 is not available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost. Staff costs are not included. There may also be further work that was carried out in Scotland, but location data is not available on central records. However, this element is likely to be very small.