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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the allocation of the Science Budget. - Inc figures. table and fact that publishing today "The Science Budget 2001-02 to 2003-04", in Library. (Dep No 00/1747).

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Nigel Griffiths (Labour)

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Department of Trade and Industry

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20 November 2000

For answer on

22 November 2000

Answered on

22 November 2000

Mr. Nigel Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the allocation of the science budget. [139831] Mr. Byers: As a result of the Spending Review, the science budget has been increased by £725 million over the next three years. This represents an increase in the Government's investment in science of an average of 7 per cent. per year in real terms over the next three years. Once again the Government are making it clear that they regard a healthy science and engineering base as critical to the nation's well-being. After taking advice from the Director General of the Research Councils, I have decided that the science budget should be allocated as follows. A total of £356 million is for investment in science and engineering research; of this, £252 million is to be spent over three years on three high-profile programmes across the Research Councils. The three programmes are as follows. Genomics: a £110 million investment to increase understanding of gene function and related applications. This should lead to the development of new diagnostics, drugs and materials. E-science: a £98 million investment to solve key problems of processing, communicating, storing and accessing data across a range of scientific disciplines, with additional investment to develop core generic technologies. This investment is absolutely essential for large scale, modern science, but I expect it to have important industrial implications over the coming decade. Basic technology: a £44 million investment to build up the UK's technology capability. This has value in itself but will also act as the springboard for more advanced science. A £1 billion Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF) will fund renewal and development, of which £375 million of this will come from the science budget, £300 million from the Department for Education and Employment, and £225 million from the Wellcome Trust. My Department is currently discussing with other interested parties the basis for the allocating of £900 million of this fund to universities. The remaining £100 million of SRIF will be invested in Research Council Institutes and large science facilities. The allocations I am announcing today to the Research Councils include £32 million of this. The remainder will be allocated later this year. There will be a new £140 million Higher Education Innovation Fund to encourage exploitation of knowledge by Higher Education Institutions. This will incorporate the current Higher Education Reach Out to Business and the Community Fund (HEROBC). This total includes around £60 million from the Department for Education and Employment, and £80 million from the science budget. There is also £20 million from the science budget for the University Challenge and Science Enterprise Challenge Schemes. £34 million is being allocated to the Research Councils to fund increases in the basic PhD stipends from £6,800 this academic year to £9,000 in 2003-04. This represents an increase of 23 per cent. in real terms over the period, following the Comprehensive Spending Review in 1998. It sends another clear signal that the Government believe that postgraduate research should no longer be seen as a Cinderella career choice. The detailed allocation is as follows. Further details are available in a report I am publishing today, "The Science Budget 2001-02 to 2003-04", which I have placed in the Library of both Houses. Resource and capital, figures include baseline and allocations of new funds £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 Total Allocations to Cross-Council programmes Genomics 15.000 39.500 55.500 110.000 E-science 13.000 29.500 55.500 98.000 Basic technology 2.000 15.000 27.000 44.000 Allocations to Research Councils{ 1} MRC 339.614 349.930 358.151 1,047.695 BBSRC 209.987 219.603 226.151 655.741 NERC 191.865 201.414 208.750 602.030 EPSRC 426.202 429.540 436.911 1,292.653 PPARC 203.289 212.383 217.208 632.881 ESRC 73.447 79.263 85.033 237.742 CCLRC 6.421 6.613 7.452 20.486 Allocations to other areas Research Council Pensions 26.970 28.450 29.740 85.160 Schemes Royal Society 25.945 28.745 29.245 83.935 Royal Academy of Engineering 4.270 4.770 5.270 14.310 DIAMOND 20.000 20.000 20.000 60.000 Joint Infrastructure Fund 125.000 -- -- 125.000 Science Research Investment -- 125.000 250.000 375.000 Fund Joint Research Equipment 10.000 10.000 10.000 30.000 Initiative Capital yet to be allocated -- 34.000 34.000 68.000 Higher Education Innovation 20.000 20.000 40.000 80.000 Fund University Challenge -- 5.000 -- 5.000 Science Enterprise Challenge -- 5.000 10.000 15.000 Exploitation of Discoveries 10.000 -- -- 10.000 at public sector research establishment Foresight Challenge -- 3.000 5.000 8.000 Cambridge-MIT Institute 14.000 14.000 14.000 42.000 OST Initiatives 3.000 3.100 3.350 9.450 OST Administration Costs 11.192 11.192 11.192 33.576 Exchange Rate and 15.264 15.464 16.014 46.742 Contingency Reserve Total 1,766.467 1,910.467 2,155.467 5,832.401 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Excluding Cross-Council programmes

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22 November 2000

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139831; 357 c199-202W;357 c199-201W

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