HC Deb 11 December 1990 vol 182 cc365-6W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 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. Hanley

Spending by the Department of Health and Social Services on health and personal social services research in Northern Ireland for 1989–90, the latest year for which an outturn figure is available, was £0.83 million.

Information for earlier years has been published in the appropriation accounts for Northern Ireland Departments.

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