§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has allocated the additional £15 million for the science budget in 1987–38, which he announced on 1 April; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerFollowing receipt of advice from the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils, I am today informing the bodies concerned of the following additions to their allocations for 1987–88.
£ million Agricultural and Food Research Council 1.5 Economic and Social Research Council 0.8 Medical Research Council 3.8 Natural Environment Research Council 0.8 Science and Engineering Research Council 7.5 British Museum (Natural History) 0.3 The Royal Society 0.3 In addition I am allocating a further £1.25 million in 1987–88, from within my programme, to the Natural Environment Research Council to reinforce the important and valuable work of the British Antarctic Survey. Supplementary Estimates for all the above expenditure will be presented in due course.