Callum McCaig – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Callum McCaig on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the budget for the National Measurement System was spent through (a) NEL Ltd, (b) the National Physical Laboratory and (c) LGC over the last five years.

Margot James

The National Measurement System (NMS) is funded by BEIS, on behalf of Government as a whole, through a portfolio of programmes encompassing a wide range of scientific disciplines.

The budget distribution across the NMS programmes was informed by the NMS Strategy 2009-2016.

* Figure quoted for NPL is adjusted to reflect the rent returned to the department by NPL.

**Now included within BEIS operating costs.