§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish information on central Government expenditure on defence research for all years since 1978–79 inclusive, by standard United Kingdom region giving the absolute, indexed and per capita form of the following disaggregated costs: (i) capital account costs and (ii) current account costs.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonResearch and development expenditure is not at present separately identified by region. I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 16 February to the hon. Member for Merionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Thomas).