§ Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will make a statement on the funding for(a) the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils and (b) the grant-in-aid funding allocated to the (i) Biotechnology and
£000 Allocation Actual 2003–04 2002–03 2001–02 2000–01 1999–2000 1998–99 1997–98 CCLRC 283,447 15,607 9,181 4,075 2,000 1,462 1,206 BBSRC 267,649 241,510 213,874 211,991 195,545 185,739 189,022 ESRC 94,584 82,963 73,647 71,800 70,872 67,506 65,227 EPSRC 463,224 473,534 444,023 413,552 404,796 379,444 386,276 MRC 387,993 365,136 356,248 319,651 304,538 284,098 292,721 NERC 286,359 205,677 187,671 178,850 176,715 173,967 166,150 PPARC 259,062 235,540 210,282 205,774 186,680 209,052 197,869 1 figures shown in the Departmental Report 2003 are on a resource basis and are not directly comparable with those above. Figures are not available on a consistent resource basis for the whole of the period shown. 2 figures also reflect changes to the structure and responsibilities of CCLRC following its Quinquennial Review, published in April 2002, including responsibility for UK subscriptions to the Institut Laue Langevin and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble.