HC Deb 20 April 1988 vol 131 c494W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for public expenditure on each stratospheric ozone research programme receiving grants from Her Majesty's Government for each year since 1980 for which figures are available; and whether he plans to increase expenditure on such research.

Mr. Moynihan

Expenditure on stratospheric ozone research by the Department, the Meteorological Office, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Science and Engineering Research Council, for each year since 1980 is as follows:

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