Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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.
Total spend by the Department and its agencies on research and development (R&D) in the years 2010-11 to 2013-14 is shown in the table below.
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
R&D spend (£ million) | 966 | 966 | 995 | 1,049 |
R&D spend as proportion of total departmental spend (per cent) | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9
| 0.9 |