§ Mr. MansTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the expenditure plans of his Department in the period 1995–96 to 1997–98.
§ Mr. David HuntProvision for the Office of Public Service and Science, HMSO, Central Office of Information is £1,339 million in 1995–96, £1,357 million in 1996–97 and £1,386 million in 1997–98.
Planned expenditure on public service tasks—OPSS, HMSO, COI—is £54 million in 1995–96, £53 million in 1996–97 and £53 million in 1997–98.
Provision for science is £1,285 million in 1995–96, £1,304 million in 1996–97 and £1,333 million in 199798. As a result, the science budget, which is provision excluding EC funding to research council institutes, has been maintained in 1995–96 at its 1994–95 level in real terms, almost 2 per cent. above its level in 1993–94.
I shall be announcing the allocation of the 1995–96 science budget in due course.