HC Deb 29 July 1988 vol 138 c659W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the number of people in bed-and-breakfast accommodation in Wales, paid for by public funds at the latest date for which statistics are available.

Mr. Grist

The information available relates to numbers of families, not to individuals. On 31 March

Research spending
1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87
Departmental expenditure on social science R and D and humanities (£ million) 0.9 0.6 0.7 1.5 2.0
Percentage of total1 departmental expenditure (per cent.) 0.04 0.02 0.03 0.05 0.07
Percentage of total departmental research spending (per cent.) 1.5 1.6 1.6 2.6 3.5
Expenditure on research2 undertaken within my Department (£ million) 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2
Expenditure on research2 undertaken by higher education establishments (£ million) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3
Expenditure on research2 undertaken by industrial research associations and non.industrial research institutes (£ million) 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.9 1.4
1 Percentage of total expenditure within my responsibility as given in the Government expenditure White Paper.
2 Figures may not add due to rounding.