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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Dr. Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list funding for scientific research and development in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) from the United States from (i) Government (ii) industry and (iii) charities for the year 1999-2000, in absolute terms, as a percentage of total research and development and as a percentage of gross domestic profit. [158803] Mr. Alan Johnson: The latest data from ONS for expenditure on R&D performed in the UK in 1999 are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Sector providing the funding Total £ million Percentage of total Percentage of GDP Government Departments 2,299 13.8 0.25 Research Councils 1,199 7.2 0.13 Higher Education Funding Councils 1,157 6.9 0.13 High Education Institutions 143 0.9 0.02 Business enterprise 8,235 49.4 0.91 Private non-profit 701 4.2 0.08 Abroad 2,930 17.6 0.32 Total 16,664 100.0 1.84 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Data for previous years can be found in Table 6.3, on page 71 of SET Statistics 2000 (Cm 4902) a copy of which is in the Library of the House, and is also available from DTI's website at http://www.dti.gov.uk/ost/setstats. The ONS surveys do not identify the source country for expenditure from abroad.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

158803; 367 c449W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Charities Business Finance Industry Government assistance Research Science USA

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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