§ Sir Peter EmeryTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the total amount of money spent for research and development for defence projects over the last four years; what proportion of each amount is assigned to research; and what to development.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe Ministry of Defence's expenditure on research and development is laid out in detail in table 3.3 of V2 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1988" (Cm 344-II). In the last four years the net outturn and the proportion of the total classified as research have been:
£ million Per cent. 1983–84 1,913 19 1984–85 2,106 19 1985–86 2,266 18 1986–87 2,186 19