HC Deb 22 February 1988 vol 128 c100W
Mr. Brazier

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps are being taken to allow research establishments of his Department to retain income derived from external sources, to defray their costs.

Mr. Sainsbury

Income generated by research establishments from the use of their facilities by external customers is already credited to their executive responsibility budgets as a receipt. Achieving greater scope for the establishments to deploy their resources on a revenue-earning basis will be one aspect to be looked at in the feasibility study of their development as an agency under the initiative announced by the Prime Minister on 18 February 1988.