Research Spending (Hansard, 8 May 2001)

§ Mr. Alan Johnson

(a) Of the £1.449 billion spent by the Research Councils during 1999–2000, £1.271 billion (around 88 per cent.) was spent on research in the UK. The remainder was spent mainly on international subscriptions (7 per cent.) and central expenditure (5 per cent.).

The expenditure in each of the home countries is given in the table.

	£million	Percentage
England	1,098	75.8
Scotland	141	9.7
Wales	28	1.9
Northern Ireland	5	0.3

Using Research Council expenditure in universities only, a distribution of spend in the English Government Office regions and the other home countries can be obtained as follows:

Region	£million	Percentage
East	57.7	10.5
East Midlands	28.6	5.2
London	110.5	20.1
North East	16.6	3.0
North West	56.9	10.4
South East	82.9	15.1
South West	27.3	5.0
West Midlands	32.2	5.9
Yorkshire and the Humber	47.7	8.7
England total	460.5	83.8
Scotland	66.1	12.0
Wales	18.2	3.3
Northern Ireland	4.7	0.9
Grand total	549.5	100.0

(b) The following figures for the intramural expenditure for Government Departments, excluding Research Councils, are calculated by the Office for National Statistics on a "pro rata" basis from the regional employment splits.

	£million	Percentage
East	22.9	3.1
East Midlands	4.4	0.6
London	76.7	10.4
North East	0.3	0.04
North West	2.9	0.4
South East	271.3	36.7
South West	115.3	15.6
West Midlands	110.2	14.9
Yorkshire and the Humber	27.7	3.8
England total	631.7	85.8

71W

	£million	Percentage
Scotland	70.6	9.6
Wales	20.6	2.8
Northern Ireland	8.0	1.1
Grand total	730.9	100.0