Northern Region (Hansard, 22 January 1981)

§ The Prime Minister

I have no immediate plans to do so.

Net Central Government Expenditure on Research and Development
	£million at 1975 price
	1971–72	1972–73	1973–74	1974–75	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79^*	1979–80†	1980–81†
Defence	561	591	615	636	668	652	672	699	655	755
Production, distribution and rational utilization of energy‡	92	82	86	85	90	90	87	88	83	99
Protection and improvement of human health	25	27	36	33	37	35	35	35	35	38
Industrial productivity and technology‡	231	219	190	184	142	90	69	100	95	80
Planning of the human environment plus social and sociological problems	34	31	33	41	47	45	41	39	41	40
Other objectives	351	355	357	388	379	393	376	370	362	≑369
Total expenditure	1,294	1,305	1,317	1,367	1,363	1,307	1,279	1,331	1,270	1,381
^* Provisional outturn, all other years are final outturn.
† Estimated, all other years are final outturn.
‡ Slight discontinuity between 1972–73 and 1973–74.
║ Includes £13 million not yet allocated to an objective.
Sources:
Current price figures by EEC objectives:
Economic Trends, July 1979 and July 1980 and Department of Industry estimates;
Studies in Official Statistics No. 27—R&D expenditure and employment.
Index of R&D prices: Statistical Office of the European Communities.
Note:
As figures have been rounded to the nearest final digit, there may be an apparent slight discrepancy between the sum of the constituent items and the total shown.