HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 cc128-9W
Mr. Bill Michie

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to his answer of 10 January,Official Report, column 4, what proportion of the £195,000 allocated in support of the national week of science, engineering and technology was given in grants; what number of applications were unsuccessful; and what would their total costs have amounted to.

Mr. Robert G. Hughes

Of the £195,000 the Office of Science and Technology has allocated in support of the 1995 national week of science, engineering and technology—SET 95–£50,000 was made available to the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science as additional funding for grants in direct support of SET 95. Some 102 applications were unsuccessful, whose total costs would have amounted to nearly £167,000.