Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what amount his Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.

Information on the total amount of expenditure by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on both research and development and the total Departmental spending on services is publically available on gov.uk as part of the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistical release. This information covers 2009-10 through to 2013-14 and can be found at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2014

This data can be accessed by using either the ‘interactive tables’ or the ‘database’.

The CRA is compiled from Departmental spending data submitted to HM Treasury on services, split by sub-functions. The data provided, uses internationally-agreed definitions called the Classifications of the Functions of Government (UN COFOG). These functions include and separately identify expenditure on various Research and Development activities.