§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the oil trade component in the A1 Yamamah agreements with Saudi Arabia; and what assessment he has made of the impact of oil price changes on those arrangements with Saudi Arabia since 1985. [129362]
§ Mr. HoonI have been asked to reply.
Research Council Public Understanding Spend £million 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 BBSRC 0.28 0.32 0.40 0.40 0.60 0.80 EPSRC 0.55 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 ESRC — — 0.53 0.59 0.54 0.75 MRC 0.10 0.30 0.20 0.33 0.66 0.51 NERC 0.16 0.16 0.14 0.23 0.15 0.15 PPARC 0.20 0.20 0.32 0.33 0.44 0.53 Total 1.29 1.91 2.52 2.81 3.32 3.67 In the case of MRC and ESRC these figures also include some public relations activity not accounted for separately.
These figures do not include public understanding work undertaken by Research Council grant holders as a condition of their grant, as figures on this activity are generally not available. However, as an example, BBSRC estimates that the value of such activity undertaken by its own grant holders totals at least £3 million per annum. The figures also exclude the significant amount of activity undertaken by Research Council funded institutes/centres, figures for which are not available centrally.