§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Prime Minister when the annual review of Government-funded research and development, "R & D '91", was published; how many copies of the report were printed; at what cost; and what attempts have been made to circulate the report to interested organisations and libraries in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. MacGregor[holding answer 18 October 1991]: I have been asked to reply.
The annual review of Government-funded research and development, "R & D '91", was published on 24 July 1991. Two thousand copies were printed and it is on sale through HMSO for £25. The printing and publishing costs totalled £25,800 and are offset by sales to date of 1,396: copies of the review's tables are also available on computer-readable disks.
A total of 355 copies have been distributed to the Libraries of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, United Kingdom Government Departments, United Kingdom-based embassies, United States National Science Foundation, the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, research councils, Universities Funding Council, Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council and in response to requests from a number of other interested organisations.