HC Deb 25 November 1969 vol 792 cc60-1W
Mr. Blaker

asked the Minister of Technology if he will give a detailed description, with a breakdown of the cost, of the services to private industry listed under subheads A1, B1, C(1), C(2), D, A2, A4, A5, A6, A3(2), (2), (4), (5), E1 and E2, respectively, of Estimate Class Number IV 19 on page 41 of Command Paper No. 3971.

Mr. Alan Williams

The information requested is given in the table below.

A fuller description of the work of the Ministry is given in the booklet "Minis-

£'000 (gross)
Subhead/Subheading 1968–69 Expenditure 1969–70 Estimate
£ £ £ £
A.1 Grant to Research Associations and other bodies for Industrial Research 4,031 4,087
(1) Annual Grants 3,738 3,850
(2) Non-recurrent grants mainly for the equipping of laboratories 119 133
(3) Special Grants 174 104
B.1 Expenditure resulting from the Shipbuilding Industry Act 1967 5,766 5,943
(1) Expenses of Shipbuilding Industry Board 107 128
(2) Grants in connection with re-organisation of resources 5,311 4,755
(3) Grants for interest relief 312 1,020
(4) Expenses in connection with shipbuilding guarantees 36 40
C.1 National Research Development Corporation 3,169 6,030
(1) Advance of capital 2,300 5,000
(2) Grants for Interest Relief 869 1,030
D. Computers Merger 4,350 4,000
International Computers (Holdings) Ltd. Group: Research and Development 4,000 4,000
International Computers (Holdings) Ltd. share purchase 350 —
A.2 Research and Development Contracts with Industry etc. 3,581 5,481
(1) Research and Development work by Industry 2,658 3,828
(2) Research work by universities and other research bodies 882 1,552
(3) Research and advisory work grants and fees to outside organizations 41 101
A.4 Miscellaneous Services: Current expenditure 145 478
(1) University Industrial Units 68 200
(2) Quality Assurance Schemes — 101
(3) Other Services 77 177
A.5 Capital Expenditure on Technological and Industrial Services 1,922 3,350
(1) Purchase of advances machine tools etc. 1,719 2,900
(2) Advisory and Demonstration Services 153 295
(3) Quality Assurance Services — 25
(4) Other Miscellaneous Services 50 130
A.6 Numerically-controlled Machine Tools 3 10
A.3 Advisory and Demonstration Services: Current Expenditure 534 858
(2) Industrial Liaison Service 206 250
(3) Production Engineering Advisory Service 167 215
(4) Low cost Automation Centres 52 110
(5) Miscellaneous Services 109 283
E.1 National Computing Centre (Grant in Aid) 550 900
E.2 British Standards Institution (Grant in Aid) 907 1,125