Environment: Research

(asked on 24th October 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Andrew Rosindell Portrait
Andrew Rosindell
(Reform UK - Romford)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department allocated to scientific research in the UK on the environment in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Baroness Coffey Portrait
Baroness Coffey
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

Defra’s science, evidence and analysis budget is allocated each year in support of policy objectives, in the areas of environment, food, farming and animal and plant health. The figures below are for all policy areas, and include surveillance, monitoring and analysis as well as research. Figures are for core Defra, and do not include the Department's Non Departmental Public Bodies, Arm’s Length Bodies, or Executive Agencies. Following the 2015 Spending Review, allocations are divided between revenue, capital, and Official Development Assistance (ODA) research.

Financial Year

Programme Evidence

Capital Research and Development

Sub-total: Non-ODA evidence budget

ODA

Total: Science, Evidence & Analysis budget

2013/14

163.27

n/a

163.27

n/a

163.27

2014/15

142.13

n/a

142.13

n/a

142.13

2015/16

119.45

n/a

119.45

n/a

119.45

2016/17

24.54

20.91

45.45

4.10

49.55

2017/18

25.36

18.90

44.26

4.13

48.39

(Figures are in £million)

The figures for 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not comparable with those for earlier years due to reallocation of budgets from core Defra to Defra's Laboratory Agencies, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), and the Environment Agency.

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