Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 10 January 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department has allocated to the office of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government in each of the last three years.
The Government chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington, is supported by the Government Office for Science, a semi-autonomous unit housed within BIS and funded from the BIS vote.
The amount allocated to GO-Science for administration costs in the financial year 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 were £5,261,000, £5,591,000 and £4,811,000 respectively.
The amount allocated for programme costs in the same years were £2,800,000, £2,900,000 and £2,800,000 respectively.
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