HC Deb 18 December 1970 vol 808 cc461-2W
Mr. Dormand

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the amount of grant-in-aid paid each year to the Social Science Research Council since it was constituted and the amount to be paid for the next two years.

Mrs. Thatcher

The grants-in-aid to the Social Science Research Council since it was constituted are as follows:—

£
1965–66 (from 1st December, 1965) 22,000
1966–67 591,121
1967–68 866,305
1968–69 1,470,104
1969–70 2,269,131
1970–71 (estimate) 3,264,000

I cannot give any figures for future years in advance of the submission of Estimates to the House.