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
|
| 1998-99 | 1999-00
| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | TOTAL
|
Cash Baseline | 1,338.3 | 1,338.3
| 1,338.3 | 1,338.3 |
|
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 Provision | 1,338.3
| 1,473.1 | 1,587.5
| 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 Provision | 1,349.5
| 1,484.5 | 1,599.1
| 1,669.6 | |
|