Research Studies

Chris Huhne
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research studies were commissioned by his Department in each of the last five years where a decision was taken not to publish the results of the research after it was completed.

Mr. Bradshaw
Out of a total of 2,272 research projects commissioned during the period 2002-06, 43 reports were withheld from publication. The breakdown of the number not published in each year against the reasons given for non publication are given in the following table.

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|Reason                       |2002|2003|2004|2005|2005|
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|Sensitive material           |    |1   |1   |2   |1   |
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|Contains personal information|3   |3   |1   |1   |2   |
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|Contains commercial value    |1   |1   |    |1   |    |
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|No specific reason given     |7   |3   |6   |5   |4   |
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