§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the letter of 22 September from the510W Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science to the hon. Member for Linlithgow, if he will list the contributions of the Wellcome Trust to significant additional investments in areas of science (a) in the biomedical area and (b) outside the biomedical area. [65395]
§ Mr. Battle[holding answer 19 January 1999]: As previously announced, we are grateful to the Wellcome Trust for providing the following funding for joint activities with the Government in support of major research programmes within the Science and Engineering Base.
£ million Joint infrastructure fund 300 University Challenge up to 18 New synchrotron radiation facility 110 These contributions are additional to the Trust's previously planned expenditure on university research over the life-time of these projects.
None of these projects have yet progressed to a stage where payments to recipients have been made, but all of these contributions will be in support of biomedical research.