§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the British taxpayer's contribution to the NATO science programme and whether the expenditure of money on all the programmes listed by NATO's Scientific Affairs Division in a recent advertisement in New Scientist have been specifically approved.
§ Baroness Chalker of Wallasey:The UK pays 18.82 per cent. of the NATO science budget. For the financial year 1994–5 this amounted to £3,715,739. The recent New Scientistadvertisement listed individual scientific meetings, rather than programmes. Each was approved specifically by the NATO Science Committee.