HC Deb 10 December 1991 vol 200 c383W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy further to his answer of 4 December,Official Report, column 141–43, if he will give the figures for 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92 excluding technology transfer and dissemination expenditure.

Mr. Wakeham

Figures for the years requested are as follows:

£ million Money terms £ million 1991–92 real terms Percentage of total research and development expenditure
Coal technology
1989–90 1.7 2.0 1.0
1990–91 11.4 12.2 7.4
1991–92 2.6 2.6 2.2
Nuclear power
1989–90 132.3 153.5 80.3
1990–91 111.7 119.5 72.4
1991–92 92.9 92.9 78.8
Energy efficiency
1989–90 2.3 2.7 1.4
1990–91 2.3 2.5 1.5
1991–92 2.4 2.4 2.0
Renewables
1989–90 16.3 18.9 9.9
1990–91 18.1 19.4 11.7
1991–92 21.0 21.0 17.8

Notes:

1. In addition to excluding technology transfer and dissemination expenditure from the above figures, the 1989–90 and 1990–91 figures for nuclear power exclude restructuring costs associated with R & D programmes.

2. 1989–90 and 1990–91 figures are final outturn.

3. 1991–92 figures are provisional.

Aid and trade provision agreements concluded in 1990–91
Country Project Lead United Kingdom company £ million Amount £ million
Botswana Flight Information Region Siemens Plessey Radar 2.938
China Beijing Subway Balfour Beatty 7.070
China Danyang Aluminium Plant Davy McKee (Poole) 3.532
Colombia San Andres Power Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering 3.430
Indonesia Citayam/Cibinong Railway Foster Wheeler World Services 20.105
Indonesia Radio Communication System for the Ministry of Forestry Philips Radio Communication Systems 34.111
Indonesia Shortwave Radio Transmitters Marconi 26.911
Kenya Distribution Transformers NI Transformers 0.688
Malaysia Connaught Bridge NEI Parsons 23.485
Malaysia Double Tracking Transmark 0.798
Malaysia Medamit 2 Hydro Electric Sir William Halcrow and Partners 0.244
Malaysia Nucleus Hospitals John Laing International 13.159
Philippines Small Islands Electrification Dale Electric 2.065
Tunisia Dump Trucks Terex Equipment 0.949