British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre: Finance
(asked on 7th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will publish the levels of funding allocated from UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council budget to the (a) British Antarctic Survey and (b) National Oceanography Centre in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Feryal Clark
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
DSIT has allocated £13.9 billion to the R&D budget for the 2025/26 financial year. Below are UK Research and Innovation's Natural Environment Research Council budget allocations over the past five financial years for the British Antarctic Survey (including the Antarctic Logistics and Infrastructure (ALI) Partition, which is a ringfenced slice of the science budget to support the UK presence in Antarctica); and the National Oceanography Centre:
| £ | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
| British Antarctic Survey | 80,357,000.000 | 96,960,602.940 | 101,985,482.620 | 102,245,360.580 | 118,574,122.818 |
| of which relates Antarctic Logistics and Infrastructure Partition | 65,731,000 | 82,631,00 | 89,905,620 | 83,397,732 | 94,307,687 |
| National Oceanography Centre | 63,105,666 | 43,202,228 | 45,351,605 | 53,420,185 | 54,245,697 |