§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table, taking his Department's 169W budget for research in 1981–82 as an index of 100, showing what has been the relative change in the index for each subsequent year.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe Department funds a programme of research which includes social security, health and personal social services, computers, building and equipment for the National Health Service. National Health Service authorities also carry out research and we look to the much larger programme arranged by the Medical Research Council for bio-medical research.
The table requested is as follows:
1981–82 = 100 1981–82 100 1982–83 95 1983–84 88 1984–85 77 1985–86 *78 * Estimated figure.