Departmental Research

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 26 November 2008.

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Photo of Peter Ainsworth Peter Ainsworth Shadow Secretary of State for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has spent on joint research projects of each type with (a) universities and (b) companies in each of the last five years; and what the name of each company was.

Photo of Hilary Benn Hilary Benn The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The information requested is as follows:

1. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has spent the following total amounts on joint research projects with universities and companies in the last five years:

£
Universities 11,867,138
Companies 11,518,417

These figures include amounts spent to date for the 2008-09 financial year

2. The financial year breakdown are as follows:

£
1: Universities
2003-04 1,687,601
2004-05 2,389,961
2005-06 2,782,582
2006-07 2,838,636
2007-08 2,168,358
£
2: Companies
2003-04 1,839,057
2004-05 2,219,279
2005-06 2,194.667
2006-07 2,584,731
2007-08 2,680,683

3. DEFRA also carries out joint funding with research councils and higher education funding councils. Much of this will fund work in universities, hence its inclusion, albeit separated from the amount specifically committed in collaboration with universities themselves. During the last five years this has totalled £13,679,932 broken down as:

£
2003-04 80,991
2004-05 2,244,193
2005-06 3,207,115
2006-07 3,635,257
2007-08 4,512,376

4. A full list of all the companies (except where this information is confidential), universities and institutes has been placed in the Library showing the cost of each project broken down into Financial Years.

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