Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Rebecca Long Bailey Portrait
Rebecca Long Bailey
(Labour - Salford)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 12 of the table on page 40 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Science and Society.

Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019

The breakdown of expenditure included in Science and Society Capital DEL is as shown in the below table

The total of £91.5m is provided to the Royal Society and UKRI to fund post-doctoral, professorship, early career fellowships, Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Inspiration and Inspiring Science programmes.

£m

Royal Society

64.0

Science & Society: Science and Learning

15.6

Royal Society - Global Challenges Research Fund

9.7

Science & Society: Science and Careers

2.3

Total (Science and Society)

91.5*

*Table does not add up due to rounding

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