§ Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will break down how 373W innovation funding in the areas of (a) industrial exploitation of science, (b) support for competitiveness, (c) space, (d) technical and design infrastructure, (e) support for construction industry, (f) expert advice and other expenditure and (g) invest to save projects, as set out in her departmental report 2003, was allocated in 2003–04; and what amounts were allocated in each year since 1997. [147804]
§ Ms HewittSuccessive departmental reports have provided breakdowns and explanations of my Department's innovation expenditure, including on Space and Civil Aerospace Research and Development
1997–98 outturn 1998–99 outturn 1999–2000 outturn 2000–01 working provision1 2001–02 outturn 2002–03 working provision2 2003–04 plans Knowledge transfer and collaboration 39.3 30.5 32.7 47.2 — — — Innovation promotion and support 78.0 61.2 56.1 66.8 — — — Standards and National Measurement System 56.6 60.0 60.4 61.7 — — — Sector Challenge 4.6 11.5 10.4 4.3 — — — CARAD 24.6 21.0 20.0 20.0 — — — Space3 102.4 87.5 88.2 90.0 87.7 85.0 82.5 Industrial exploitation of science — — — — 67.9 86.8 94.1 Support for competitiveness — — — — 60.3 73.0 73.4 Technical and design infrastructure — — — — 69.9 73.7 89.4 Expert advice and other expenditure — — — — 7.7 3.8 2.7 Total 305.5 271.7 267.8 290.0 293.5 322.3 342.1 1 Budget structure changed from 2001–02. 2 2002–03 outturn will be reported in the 2004 departmental report. 3 Excludes Office of Science and Technology expenditure on space (except for 2003–04 plans, which include BNSC budgets transferring to the Science budget from 2003–04). Source:
1999–2003 departmental reports (Cm 4211, March 1999, Table 1.5; Cm 4611, April 2000, Figure 3.7; Cm 5112, March 2001, Figure 4.5; Cm 5416, June 2002, Figure 4.5; and Cm 5916, May 2003, Figure 5.2)