§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list(a) in cash terms and (b) deflated according to an appropriate index of higher education pay and prices the spending on health and personal social services research in each year from 1979 to the most recent year which his Department has funded in universities, polytechnics and other related institutions.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettFunding for health and personal social services research is largely provided under the joint England and Wales health and personal social services research programme. Spending on this programme in 1989–90, the latest year for which outturn figures are available, was £15.4 million.
Information for earlier years is available in the Cabinet Office annual review of Government-funded research and development.
Some additional funding for health research in Wales is provided directly by the Welsh Office. Spending in 1989–90, the latest year for which outturn figures are available, amounted to £518,000. Information for earlier years is available in the appropriation accounts.