HC Deb 24 January 1989 vol 145 c482W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was Welsh Office expenditure on environmental research in Wales in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Grist

The information is as follows:

£000s cash
1979–80 93
1980–81 80
1981–82 126
1982–83 165
1983–84 187
1984–85 205
1985–86 270
1986–87 887
1987–88 367

The increase in expenditure in 1986–87 was due to payments for studies relating to: the redevelopment of Cardiff bay, the staging of a national garden festival in Wales, and the intensive monitoring of sheep and other agricultural produce following the Chernobyl accident in 1986.