§ Dr. BrayTo ask the Prime Minister if he will outline the reconciliation between the figure for expenditure on research and development in private industry made by the Ministry of Defence of £1,202 million for 1988–89 as shown in table 2b of the "Annual Review of Government Funded Research and Development 1990" and the amount received by industry from the Department in 1989 of £630 million according to table 7 of the Central Statistical Office's "Business Bulletin" issue 14/91.
§ The Prime MinisterReasons for the apparent difference between the two estimates of defence research and development expenditure are provided in the Cabinet Office's "Annual Review of Government Funded R and D 1990" (page 18, paragraph 2). As indicated in paragraph 18 of the Government's reply (Cm 1467) to the report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology on Definitions of R and D (HL Paper 44), we intend to pursue further with industry the reasons for these differing assessments.