§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of state for Education and science if
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GRANTS HELD ON 30TH SEPTEMPER 1976 BY Main subject Number Amount £ (a) Council member— Management 1 50,597 Psychology 1 63,598 (b) Committee members (excluding any awards before assumption of office)— Anthropology 4 12,492 5,577 2,153 3,869 Computing 1 509 Economics 2 56,985 17,077 Economics and Social History 4 34,556 20,200 7,072 16,344 Education 1 14,992 Management 2 39,163 99,267 Political Science 2 11,512 10,500 Psychology 2 15,029 11,338 Sociology 1 22,086 Statistics 1 7,544 she will list (a) the total grants made by the Social Science Research Council in each year since 1965, (b) the grants made by the Social Science Research Council, by subject and amount, which have been given to members of the Council, or its committees, as principal investigators or other leading participants in these project in each year since 1965 and (c) the total grants given by the Social Science Research Council to members of the Council, or its committees, as a percentage of the total grants given by the Council in each year since 1965.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe answer to the first part of the Question is as follows:
Financial Year total £'000 1965–66 … … … 158 1966–67 … … … 216 1967–68 … … … 316 1968–69 … … … 585 1969–70 … … … 856 1970–71 … … … 1,137 1971–72 … … … 1,575 1972–73 … … … 2,044 1973–74 … … … 2,038 1974–75 … … … 2,460 1975–76 … … … 3,069 Answers to the second and third parts for the whole of the period since 1965 could not be provided without disproportionate expenditure of time and effort. Available information is as follows:
439WThe Council estimates that, in terms of expenditure in the financial year 1975–76, the proportion in the last part of the Question was 6.3 per cent.