HC Deb 28 June 2001 vol 370 cc143-4W
Jeremy Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what her Department's expenditure was on Antarctica in each of the past five years. [1054]

Mr. Wilson

The expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry through the Science Budget on the British Antarctic Survey is given in the table.

£000
Science budget expenditure
1996–97 26,823
1997–98 26,550
1998–99 26,523
1999–2000 29,892
2000–01 39,556

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