§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of research grants which have been given by his Department to academic and scientific institutions during the last six years; and what this number represented as a proportion of the applications for research grants submitted to his Department during the same period.
§ Mr. DunnInformation on this is published annually by the Department in "List 1: Current Educational Research Projects supported by the Department of Education and Science", and copies for the years 1979 to 1985 inclusive are available in the Library. The number of research grants awarded to academic and scientific institutions by the Department during the last six years totalled 430. Information as to what this number represented as a proportion of the applications for research grants submitted to the Department during the same period is not available.