Alpha-rated Research

HC Deb 22 January 1990 vol 165 cc493-4W

Mr. Warren

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what would have been the extra money required by each research council to have funded all the alpha-rated research projects in the financial year 1988–89; and how much money was spent by each research council on alpha-rated projects in that financial year.

Mr. Jackson

The additional amounts that would have been required to fund all alpha-rated research grant applications in the academic year 1988–89 were as follows:

	£ million
Agricultural and Food Research Council	0.3
Medical Research Council	17.9
Natural Environment Research Council	0.7
Science and Engineering Research Council	63.6
Economic and Social Research Council	5.0
	87.5

In the 1988–89 financial year the councils' spend on alpha-rated research projects was as follows:

	£ million
Agricultural and Food Research Council	9.1
Medical Research Council	44.5
Natural Environment Research Council	4.6
Science and Engineering Research Council	123.0
Economic and Social Research Council	4.3
	185.5