§ Mrs. EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Tayside North of 19 February 1998,Official Report, columns 842–43, on departmental employees, if he will provide figures for research contracts by region for the most recent financial year. [95366]
§ Mr. Kilfoyle[holding answer 26 October 1999]: The information requested is not available in precisely the form requested. The number and total value of extant research contracts in Financial Year 1998–99 in the following locations is as listed:
Location Number of contracts Value of contracts (£) (a) London 82 11,695,303 (b) the rest of the South East of England 250 274,714,231 (c) England (including (a) and (b) 908 393,879,546 (d) Scotland 21 1,692,493 (e) Wales 1 26,019 (f) Northern Ireland 0 — The information cannot be provided by the Regions requested as such information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.