§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the research projects in universities which have been funded by the Government Communications Headquarters since 1989, including the duration, titles and value of each project; and what security classification applied to each such university project.
§ Mr. HurdThe information requested by the hon. Member is as follows:
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Year University and title Cost £ Duration 1989 Cambridge Max Newman Fellowship 109,683 4 years 1990 Leicester Testing and integration of direction finding sub-system 1,700 2 months 1991 Leicester Analysis of high frequency radio propagation measurements 35,392 3½4 years Leicester Data collection and processing for analysis of high frequency radio propagation measurements 64,849 2 years York Screened room measurements 101,823 2 years Oxford Mathematical Research Fellowship 109,000 3 years Leicester Development and construction of data collection and processing unit for high frequency radio propagation measurements 33,151 2 years 1992 York Characterisation of facsimile 5,000 18 months York Research support in field of communications simulation and modelling 14,547 1 year 1993 Leicester Direction finding data analysis 67,075 1 year Cambridge Max Newman Fellowship 99,000 3 years In addition to the two university research projects listed for 1992 there was a project with Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education—cost £10,000, duration one year—on fax image orientation.
As I told the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) on 21 July 1993 at column 236, the research commissioned is confined to unclassified subjects. We retain proprietary rights over the research, but the results may be published by the relevant academic institution, if it wishes.