§ Sir H. SAMUELasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the estimated expenditure of the State in the present financial year upon scientific research, including grants through the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Colonial Development it und, and any other channels?
§ Mr. COOPERThe expenditure of the State upon scientific research in the current financial year is estimated as follows:
£ Admiralty 771,100 War Office 321,450 Air Ministry 1,430,000 Colonial Services 7,000 Colonial Development Fund 28,500 Dominion Services 31,233 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 327,232 Department of Agriculture for Scotland 47,180 Fishery Board for Scotland 15,500 Development Fund (direct grants) 18,091 Forestry Commission 10,915 Mines Department 1,750 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 559,894 Vote for Scientific Investigation (including Agricultural and Medical Research Councils) 199,473 Ministry of Health 3,320 Post Office 68,000* Office of Works 140,765 £3,981,403 * Includes £18,000 charged to Post Office loan. NOTES:
1. The above figures do not include expenditure in respect of salaries, etc., of administrative staff except in the case of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
2. In the case of the Defence Departments (and to some extent of other Departments also) it is impracticable to distinguish 1141W between expenditure on pure scientific research and that on technical research and experiment. The figures given include so far as possible the provision for all such expenditure.
3. The normal work of the Government chemist entails a cerain amount of research to which no definite proportion of the annual expenditure can be assigned, and nothing has been included in respect thereof in the above figures.