§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the distribution to the research councils, the Royal Society and the Fellowship of Engineering, of the sums that were left unallocated when the science budget planning figures for 1992–93 and 1993 were indicatively distributed.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthI have received further advice on the distribution of these unallocated sums from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils, and have decided to accept the board's recommendation that, subject to approval by Parliament of the estimates in due course, the following additions should be made to the indicative allocations already announced for 1992–93 and 1993–94:
£million 1992–93 1993–94 Agricultural and Food Research Council 3.1 3.5 Economic and Social Research Council 2.1 2.7 Medical Research Council 5.6 6.2 Natural Environment Research Council 3.8 4.4 Science and Engineering Research Council 120.8 122.5 Royal Society 0.9 1.1 Fellowship of Engineering 0.2 0.2 Total 36.5 240.6 1 SERC's figures includes £5 million in each year for enhanced supercomputing facilities for use by research councils and institutions of higher education. 2 The ABRC has not yet considered the distribution of £17.3 million of the unallocated sum for 1993–94.