§ Mr. DykesTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amounts of public funding allocated by his Department or through other Departments after Treasury sanction to United Kingdom companies for research and development projects and direct Government contracts in each of the fiscal years 1979–80 and 1989–90.
§ Mrs. Gillian Shephard[holding answer 13 May 1991]: The figures for total research and development, including development studies, spending by Her Majesty's Treasury are as follows:
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£'000s 1983–84 1,930 1984–85 4,122 1985–86 4,007
£'000s 1986–87 3,321 1987–88 4,038 1988–89 4,509 1989–90 2,578 Figures for earlier years are unavailable and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The table does not include Treasury-sanctioned expenditure by other Government Departments. Information on Government spending as a whole is set out in the Cabinet Office publication "Annual Review of Government Funded Research and Development", published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.