§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Prime Minister if she will publish the Cabinet Office figures for 1979 and each year until 1984, and the projections for each year 1985 until 1990, giving the total of civilian and military research and development expenditure.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested is published in the "Annual Review of Government Funded558W Research and Development 1984", HMSO, ISBN 011 630826 5, table 2.1, for the years 1981–82 to 1936–87. No projections are available for the years after 1986–87, the last year covered by the most recent public expenditure survey. Similar material for the period before that covered by the Cabinet Office exercise, collected for statistical purposes by the Department of Trade and Industry, has been published in the article "Research and Development in the United Kingdom in 1981", Economic Trends, August 1984, p. 81–96, table B.