HC Deb 09 May 1988 vol 133 c19W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for the expenditure by his Department on(a) radioactive waste management,

Year (a) Radioactive waste management £000 (b) Air pollution £000 (c) Total environmental protection1 £000
1973–74 647 21,067
1974–75 861 21,821
1975–76 1,377 22,943
1976–77 1,164 22,671
1977–78 1,248 23,655
1978–79 3,914 1,578 7,958
1979–80 5,113 1,584 8,810
1980–81 9,780 1,841 13,619
1981–82 8,833 2,158 13,681
1982–83 8,116 1,714 12,517
1983–84 8,805 1,866 12,974
1984–85 9,360 1,874 13,869
1985–86 11,725 3,704 17,978
1986–87 (provisional) 10,900 4,500 18,000
1 Includes radioactive waste management and air pollution research; excludes water and countryside research.
2 Figures before 1978–79 do not include any expenditure on research on radioactive waste management since it was not until then a DOE responsibility.