HC Deb 29 November 1994 vol 250 c665W
Mr. Mans

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the expenditure plans of his Department in the period 1995–96 to 1997–98.

Mr. David Hunt

Provision for the Office of Public Service and Science, HMSO, Central Office of Information is £1,339 million in 1995–96, £1,357 million in 1996–97 and £1,386 million in 1997–98.

Planned expenditure on public service tasks—OPSS, HMSO, COI—is £54 million in 1995–96, £53 million in 1996–97 and £53 million in 1997–98.

Provision for science is £1,285 million in 1995–96, £1,304 million in 1996–97 and £1,333 million in 199798. As a result, the science budget, which is provision excluding EC funding to research council institutes, has been maintained in 1995–96 at its 1994–95 level in real terms, almost 2 per cent. above its level in 1993–94.

I shall be announcing the allocation of the 1995–96 science budget in due course.