HC Deb 05 February 1971 vol 810 cc483-4W
Mr. Robert Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those industrial research associations which are currently in receipt of Government grants; and the amount of each grant.

Mr. Noble

The grants paid in 1969–70 to research associations now in receipt of grant either from the Department of Trade and Industry or the Department of the Environment were as follows:

Research Association Grant (£)
Brush 5,857
Cast Iron 142,657
Ceramic 113,160
Coke 60,895
C.I.R.I.A 257,200
Cotton 103,740
Cutlery 16,397
Drop Forging 29,159
Electrical 144,309
Flour Milling and Baking 86,604
Food 92,710
Fruit and Vegetable 30,826
Furniture 57,970
Glass 48,620
Heating and Ventilating 24,299
Hosiery 48,212
Hydromechanics 41,032
Industrial Biology 124,825
Industrial Psychology 39,124
Lace 9,250
Lambeg Industrial 38,314
Launderers 56,728
Leather 55,021
Machine Tool 82,842
Motor 104,792
Commonwealth Mycological Institute 12,776
Non Ferrous Metals 94,491
Paint 31,164
Pira 111,888
Production Engineering 197,050
Rubber and Plastics 109,373
Scottish Textile 30,710
Sira Institute 231,382
Ship 381,520
Shoe 47,431
Spring 10,929
Steel Castings 70,719
Tar 34,535
Timber 79,977
Water 80,340
Welding Institute 356,352
Welwyn Hall 33,473
Wool 108,622
S.C.C.T.R.* 15,581
* Standing Consultative Conference on Textile Research.