Select Committee on Science and Technology Minutes of Evidence


Memorandum submitted by the Office of Science and Technology

SCIENCE BUDGET: OUTCOME OF THE COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW

  The outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review for the Science Budget was announced in a reply to Mr Alan Johnson MP on Monday 13 January. Unfortunately, there were some major typographical errors in the table attached to the reply, and furthermore, it was in terms of the Science Budget gross of receipts from the European Union by Research Council institutes. The Committee may therefore find it helpful to have before them the attached table showing the outcome in terms of the net Science Budget, ie, the sums available for allocation to the Research Councils, and other projects and initiatives.

23 July 1998

SCIENCE BUDGET (NET) SETTLEMENT
£ million
1998-991999-00 2000-012001-02TOTAL
Cash Baseline1,338.31,338.3 1,338.31,338.3
Additional Programmes:
Current: 49.8 99.1 134.3 283.2
Capital: 40.0 60.0 100.0
Infrastructure Fund 75.0 100.0 125.0 300.0
University Challenge 10.0 10.0 20.0
Total Additions 134.8 249.1 319.3 703.2
Total New Science Provision1,338.3 1,473.11,587.5 1,657.6
% increase in cash terms over
1998-99 baseline
10.07 18.6 23.9
% increase in real terms over
1998-99 baseline
7.3 12.8 14.9
Science Provision
EU receipts 11.1 11.4 11.7 12.0
Total new Science Provision1,349.5 1,484.51,599.1 1,669.6




 
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