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Polly Toynbee

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments the Economic and Social Research Council has made to Ms Polly Toynbee in the last five years; and for what purposes. (290998)

[holding answer 14 September 2009]: In the last five years the Economic and Social Research Council has made the following payments to Ms Polly Toynbee:

2004-05—£587.50 for an Evaluation Review of an ESRC Research Centre, involving three days work;

2005-06—£881.25 for an article for ESRC Society Today, the ESRC website. The article was 1,800 words long and involved two days work;

2009-10—£400 for chairing an ESRC lecture on Recession and the Green Economy.