Annex A
HOUSE OF COMMONS WELSH AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
INQUIRY INTO MANUFACTURING AND TRADE IN WALES
WRITTEN QUESTIONS
FROM THE
CLERK OF
THE COMMITTEE
2 (a) Why is science not a devolved
area and what impact does this have on the manufacturing sector
in Wales?
Science has not been designated a devolved area
by the Government. This reflects the national importance of structures
of scientific research and activity by the Research Councils UK,
generally, which is UK wide.
We are not aware of any studies done on the
impact of scientific spend on manufacturing sector in any of the
devolved administrations or individual English regions. I refer
to Annex 1 of RCUK's response, which shows the regional dispersion
of Research Council granted resources. However there is no breakdown
of the proportion that individual sectors receive.
3 (a) Does the pattern reflect the
numbers of academics working in each region nor are there areas
which under/over perform per capita?
Please see sheet RCInst v Academs v capita.
This is as far as we can go with the regional breakdowns for this
question. There does seem to be a close relation, as you might
expect between the total proportion in each region of researchers
and research council grants but also between total researchers
and gross value added. Numbers of Research Council institutes
per region seem to stand alone however.
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