§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total cost of Government-sponsored industrial and scientific research in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, respectively, in the current year.
§ Mr. Denzil Davies,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11th July 1978], gave the following answer:
Information about the total cost of Government-sponsored industrial and scientific research is not available for separate countries within the United Kingdom.
Figures for the research and development content of the 1978–79 Supply Estimates were published in table 7 of the Chief Secretary's Memorandum, Cmnd. 7157. Table 7 does include some details of expenditure on an individual country basis but for the bulk of expenditure information is collected only for the United Kingdom as a whole.