Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent from its research and development budget over the last five years; and how much such spending is planned for (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
Revenue expenditure from the Department's research and development budget is shown in the following table:
£ million
2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 provisional | 2014-15 planned |
885 | 960 | 952 | 985 | 1,004 | 1,077 |
A budget figure for 2015-16 has not yet been set. This will happen as part of standard business planning later in the year.