Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Department of Trade and Industry
Question 77 (Mr Curry): Comparison of Value of
US vs European Business Contracts
At the recent PAC Hearing on UK Space Activities,
members were interested in the relative value of space-related
business won by UK organisations from institutional customers
in US and Europe.
The table below is reproduced from "Size
and health of the UK space industry 2003 update study",
published by BNSC. It provides a breakdown of the value of space-related
business (upstream and downstream) done by UK organisations both
in terms of customer types and world regions. As can be seen during
2002-03, UK organisations performed £126 million worth of
business for UK institutions (space agencies, Government and military).
In comparison they performed £112 million of business for
European institutions and £27 million for institutions based
in the Americas. Of the latter (ie £27 million from the Americas)
the largest portion of the business will have been received from
US institutions.
Table 1
BREAKDOWN OF CUSTOMERS BY TYPE AND REGION—2002-03
Turnover (£ Million)
2002-03
| Space agencies | Government
| Military | Commercial (business market)
| Commercial (consumer market) | All customers
|
| UK | 30 | 26 |
70 | 359 | 2,277 |
2,762 |
| EU (exc UK) | 98 | 7
| 7 | 399 | 147
| 658 |
| America | 4 | 2
| 21 | 298 | 16
| 343 |
| Africa and M East | 4 | 1
| 12 | 48 | 0 |
65 |
| Asia | 3 | 2 |
0 | 80 | 0 | 85
|
| All regions | 140 | 38
| 110 | 1,185 | 2,440
| 3,913 |
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Question 120 (Mr Bacon): Beagle costs
| Increment | Commitment Date
| DTI
(£ million) | PPARC
(£ million)
| ESA
(£ million) | DTI+OST
(£ million)
| Open University
(£ million)
| EADS
Astrium
(£ million)
| Totals
(£ million) |
| Instruments | Jul-1999 |
| 2.74 | | |
| | 2.7 |
| Initial ROAME statement | Jul-1999
| 5 | | |
| | | 5.0 |
| Underwriting | Aug-2000 |
| | | 5 | 3.5
| 3.5 | 12.0 |
| B2 elements—ESA | Nov-2000
| | | 9.7 |
| | | 9.7
|
| Increased Underwriting | Aug-2001
| | | | 8.3
| 1.9 | | 10.2
|
| Parachute risk reduction | Jul-2002
| | | | 1.5
| | | 1.5 |
| Planetary Protection Facility | Nov-2001
| | | 1.95 |
| | | 2.0
|
| Post launch support/ operations | Apr-2002
| | 2.08 | |
| | | 2.1
|
| Project Total (£ Million) |
| | |
| | | 45.2 |
| | |
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NOTES
(1) OU also received £2.6 million from Wellcome
Trust biomedical research charity to help develop miniaturised
mass spectrometer technology with some overlap with Beagle 2.
This activity is continuing.
(2) EADS Astrium declared a £1.5 million loss on
the project.
(3) Significant but unquantifiable "in-kind"
contributions were made by many further organisations in both
academia and industry.
(4) PPARC terminated the operations grant before completion:
incurred cost was £1.86 million.
8 December 2004
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