Research and Development (Hansard, 20 June 1990)

§ 121. Mr. Hague
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will list the levels of Government-funded research and development for(a) Japan, (b) the United States of America and (c) the United Kingdom for the years 1985 to 1989.

§ 20. Mr. Hanley
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will list the levels of Government-funded research and development for(a) Japan, (b) the United States of America and (c) the United Kingdom for the years 1985 to 1989.

§ Mr. Douglas Hogg
Government-funded R and D as a percentage of GDP was between 1.3 per cent. and 1.0 per cent. for the United Kingdom in the period 1985 to 1988. For the United States of America, the corresponding figures were between 1.3 per cent. and 1.2 per cent. For Japan, the percentage was constant at 0.5 per cent. No figures are yet available for 1989.