HC Deb 09 June 1999 vol 332 c343W
Mr. Alan Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people are currently employed in the medical and pharmaceutical applications of biotechnology in the United Kingdom; and what has been the annual financial contribution of this area of biotechnology to the United Kingdom's GDP since and including 1992(a) in actual terms and (b) in terms of a percentage of the whole. [86069]

Mr. Battle

This information is not available from official statistics. To obtain it, would involve disproportionate cost.