Asked by: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spent on research contracts and grants in (1) 2022–23, and (2) 2023–24; and what proportion of that spending went to UK universities.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table shows the Core CDEL R&D spend and estimated spend on R&D in UK universities. These values only include direct contracts between core Defra and UK universities and not universities funded through Defra research programmes delivered by UK Research and Innovation or others. In addition, it has not been possible to identify UK universities that may have received funding as a sub-contractor or consortium member.
| Table 1 | |||
| Total FY spend of Defra Core agreements £m | |||
| FY22-23 | FY23-24 | ||
| Q1/Q2 | Q3/Q4 | Q1/Q2 | Q3/Q4 |
Defra Core CDEL R & D – excluding funding transferred to Public Sector Research Establishments | 9.9 | 42.3 | 17.7 | 64.9 |
Of which grants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Of which contracts to UK universities | 6.5 | 3.5 | ||
Data on R&D spending is published annually as part of the Office for National Statistics UK gross domestic expenditure on research and development.