§ Lord Lewis of Newhamasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the number of grants awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and their relative values, in the last round of awards, for the fields of (a) inorganic, (b) organic and (c) physical chemistry, both in responsive mode funding and in Realising Our Potential Awards.
§ Lord Fraser of CarmyllieThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funds chemistry across a range of programmes and no longer has grant rounds at set times of year, but, for proposals submitted since 1 January 1995 in the Chemistry Programme, responsive mode awards have been made as follows:
Area Number of awards Total £ million
Inorganic Chemistry 8 0.50 Organic Chemistry 6 0.54 Physical Chemistry 6 1.00 and 47 Realising Our Potential Awards have been made as follows: Inorganic Chemistry 6 0.45 Organic Chemistry 16 1.24 Physical Chemistry 25 2.26