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 and Eccles)

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 14 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 Research Base and Science Contingency.

Answered by
Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait
Lord Harrington of Watford
This question was answered on 25th March 2019

The breakdown of expenditure included under Research Base and Science Contingency Capital DEL is as shown in the following table: -

£m

Global Challenges Research Fund

31.4

Newton fund

23.2

Rutherford Fund

6.8

Academy of Medical Sciences

3.8

Foresight

2.6

Global Science Innovation and Education

1.7

Research Base initiatives

0.5

Global Partnership Fund

0.2

Reserved for new National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) funds

306.8

Total (Research Base and Science Contingency)

377.2*

*Table does not add up due to rounding

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