HC Deb 19 October 1992 vol 212 cc27-8W
Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 29 June,Official Report, column 410, if he will list the seven research projects, detailing the institutions involved and the value of each project; and what change in the number of these projects in universities and polytechnics there has been since 1979.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The seven research projects referred to in my answer of 29 June were as follows:

  1. (a) Cambridge university, department of pure mathematics and mathematical studies, research fellowship, £109,683 over three years.
  2. (b) Oxford university, Merton college research fellowship (this fellowship is with the college as a whole rather than with college department), £109,000 over three years.
  3. (c) York university, department of electronics, electrical screening measurements, £101,823 over three years.
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  4. (d) York university, department of electronics, induction field wave impedence effects, £53,055 over three years.
  5. (e) Leicester university, department of physics, development and construction of data collection and processing unit for HF radio propagation measurements, £33,151 over one year.
  6. (f) Leicester university, department of physics, analysis of HF radio propagation measurements with reference to high latitude effects, £35,392 over three years.
  7. (g) Leicester university, department of physics, analysis of HF radio propagation measurements, £64,849 over one year.

All these projects are still current (or have been renewed) except for that with York university on induction wave impedence.

The foregoing list omitted two recently signed contracts with York university for:

(h) classification of fax image, worth £5,000.

(i) research support in the field of communications simulation and modelling, worth £14,547.

A further contract has since been signed with the Gloucester college of higher education for work on fax image counter orientation image worth £10,000.

The number of projects is subject to change, but to the best of GCHQ's knowledge in the time available there were four contracts current in 1979, with the universities of Loughborough, Leicester, Birmingham and Surrey. The total value of these was £69,000 in 1979.