International Development written question – answered at on 9 January 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of (a) departmental expenditure and (b) departmental funding for research was allocated to the development of GM crops in each of the last three years.
The proportion of (a) DFID departmental expenditure and (b) departmental funding for research allocated to the development of GM crops in each of the last three years is as follows:
(a) No departmental expenditure with the exception of research figures below.
(b) Research commissioned by DFID as a proportion of DFID's research budget: 2003–04 0.37 per cent; 2004–05 0.35 per cent.; and for 2005–06 0.23 per cent. (predicted).
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