Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1991.
Mr Alan Howarth
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Education and Science)
12:00,
12 March 1991
In 1988 the United Kingdom Government spent 0·55 per cent. of gross domestic product on civil scientific research. The corresponding figures for Japan and the USA were 0·45 and 0·39 per cent.
