HC Deb 10 May 1993 vol 224 c309W
Mr. Hain

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will provide figures for expenditure for the Office of Science and Technology for(a) technology transfer and (b) industrial innovation (i) for the past five years and (ii) as projected for the next three years.

Mr. Jackson

The table lists the expenditure by the Office of Science and Technology for the "technology transfer" component of the primary purpose classification of research and development, as defined in the 1992 edition of the Annual Review of Government Funded Research and Development. Information is not available under the heading "industrial innovation" as there is, as yet, no accepted standard definition of the term. The table lists the Office's expenditure under the primary purpose category "technology support", which includes strategic and applied research and pre-competitive schemes such as LINK.

Year Technology transfer £ million Technology support £ million
1988–89 4.9 1
1989–90 4.0 209.0
1990–91 4.6 238.0
1991–92 6.1 243.9
1992–93 6.8 289.6
1993–94 8.7 326.9
1994–95 8.9 347.2
1995–96 9.1 358.1

1 Note: The primary purpose classifications were changed between 1988–89 and 1989–90 with the introduction of a new class "technology support", but did not affect "technology transfer".