HC Deb 15 March 1989 vol 149 c266W
53. Mr. Clelland

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries the proportion of gross domestic product spent by Government on civil research and development has fallen since 1983.

Mr. Forth

Of the twenty OECD member countries showing figures for 1983 and 1986, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom recorded a fall in Government funding of civil research and development as a percentage of gross domestic product.