Global Warming

Mr. Hayes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much the Department has spent on research into global warming in 2005-06; and on what projects money has been spent.

Ian Pearson
DEFRA’s climate change science research programme analyses the risk of human-induced climate change and assesses its potential impacts and means of adaptation and mitigation. Total spending on climate science research in 2005-06 was £15.7 million. This included over £11 million for the Hadley Centre (part of the Meteorological Office) and around £0.7 million for the UK Climate Impacts Programme (www.ukcip.org.uk).

DEFRA also commissions research on energy efficiency and energy use. The expenditure on research related to climate change and energy was over £1 million in 2005-06.

The following table shows the research programme’s spending for the financial year 2005-06.

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|Research                                              |Cost (£)  |
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|Observation and underpinning science of climate change|13,314,670|
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|Assessing the impact of climate change                |1,295,393 |
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|Identification of mitigation options                  |1,134,261 |
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|Energy efficiency and energy use                      |1,081,935 |
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Details of all DEFRA research projects on climate change and energy can be found at:

http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/project_data/projects.asp? SCOPE=0&M=PSA&V=EP%3A030

and

http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/project_data/projects.asp? SCOPE=0&M=PSA&V=PI%3A070F