§ Alan SimpsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 14 October 2002,Official Report, column 498W, on biotechnology research projects, what proportion of (a) the medical research council's£062 million of research and development spending and (b) the Department of 549W Health's—£510 million research spending shown in Table 3 Looking Forward (Cm 5338) goes into biomedical research.[79515]
§ Ms BlearsAll the research that the Medical Research Council (MRC) supports is biomedical research. An estimated 60 per cent. of the Department's research expenditure is used in the National Health Service to support research by the MRC, by medical research charities and by other research collaborators, a substantial part of which is to support the clinical stages of biomedical research. The Department and the NHS also directly fund health services' biomedical research; for example, through genetics knowledge parks and other programmes. Some 40 per cent. of the Department's policy research programme expenditure is on biomedical research.