§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security 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 social security research in each year from 1979 to the most recent year which his Department has funded in universities, polytechnics and other related institutions.
§ Miss WiddecombeTotal spending on social security research in 1989–90 (the latest year for which information is available) was £937,000. Available information for previous years is published in the Cabinet Office annual review of research and development, a copy of which is in the Library.