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<p>This Government has put in place greater scrutiny and challenge of newly commissioned
research programmes to deliver better value for money; we have intentionally sought
to cut wasteful spending and unnecessary programmes.</p><p>Indeed, the last Administration
spent £25.6 million on research projects that were commissioned but not published
before May 2010, and many of those projects did not represent value for money for
taxpayers – as evident by the fact that many were unpublished for years.</p><p>The
table below shows expenditure by my Department on research and development:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Year </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Amount
</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-2010</p></td><td><p>£29,735,241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010
-2011</p></td><td><p>£20,979,553</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>£8,478,542</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>£6,502,799</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>£7,287,772</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-March
2015</p></td><td><p>£6,287,749</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>(Figures prepared
on an accruals basis) </em></p><p> </p><p>Figures on the total spending of the Department
can be found in our published accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The DCLG Group (i.e. the Department
and its agencies) is making a real terms reduction in its annual running costs by
around 40% over the period 2010-11 to 2014-15. This equates to net savings of over
£640 million over this spending review period.</p><p> </p><p>It has not been possible
to collate detailed figures from our Arms Length Bodies in the time before prorogation.</p>
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