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Asked by:
David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged:
8 June 2000
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Current status:
Answered by John Home Robertson on 22 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what public funding the Moredun Foundation has received in each of the last five financial years and what the future funding plans are for those years for which figures are available.
The Scottish Executive provides funding for the Moredun Research Institute (MRI), a subsidiary of the Moredun Foundation. The total sums paid to MRI in each of the last five financial years, and the allocations for this year and next year, are as follows:
Actual payments
1995-96 £000 | 1996-97 £000 | 1997-98 £000 | 1998-99 £000 | 1999-2000 £000 |
4,057 | 4,036 | 4,655 | 4,055 | 4,116 |
Planned funding
2000-01 £000 | 2001-02 £000 |
4,243 | 4,241 |
The sums shown for 2000-01 and 2001-02 are provisional, and subject to change. This is particularly so where the funding is for specific fixed-term research contracts, and further contracts may be awarded.Exchequer funding is also received by MRI, for research undertaken on a contract basis from a variety of other sources such as the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and MAFF. The sources and amounts vary somewhat between years but, in 1999-2000 for example, such funding totalled some £425,000. Further research contracts are supported by European funds and by the private sector.