date: Fri Oct 17 12:30:26 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: RE: Parliamentary Question- Government funding to CRU to: "Humphrey, Kathryn (CEOSA)" Kathryn, Good - nothing to do, for the moment. Don't read too much into my note about the UEA/CRU relationship. CRU is part of the School of Environmental Sciences (ENV) which is part of UEA. Issue is that CRU is more widely known outside the UK than ENV and even UEA, but a number of people in ENV and UEA don't seem to appreciate this. Useful to know if you do find out any more about this MP. See you on the 3rd. Cheers Phil At 20:06 16/10/2008, you wrote: Hi Phil, Thanks for your prompt reply. I found out after emailing you that wed had in three PQs on the same subject and after some discussion decided that we could offer a nil return as the wording specifically relates to grants and subsidies which our finance people have told us that research contracts do not fall into (this is more related to funding from research councils etc). So no need to do any work but interesting to note your point re the UEA and CRU relationship. Ill let you know if we get anything else coming from this gentleman! Kind Regards, Kathryn From: Phil Jones [[1]mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 16 October 2008 15:54 To: Humphrey, Kathryn (CEOSA); C Goodess Subject: Re: Parliamentary Question- Government funding to CRU Kathryn, We'll try and send you something tomorrow. Can I clarify some things? I presume you just want to know about Govt Depts (i.e. not NERC and other research councils and not other UK funding bodies like the EA)? If you want a full list of everything, this won't be possible as our admin person is away this and next week. Also there is no money directly to CRU - all goes to UEA. This applies for all our grants and contracts - none come directly to CRU. I wish sometimes that they did, but UEA deals with everything. This would be the same with any UK University Dept. The only major one with DEFRA since 1998 (apart from UKCIP) is the LINK project - which BADC now have and run. We had this from the early 1990s through to about 3-4 years ago. We have no subsidies - all are grants which we get or don't get through competitive tenders or grant calls from the research councils. No idea why he's asked this. It could be he's had questions from a constituent who has been looking at blog sites. There is a belief in the blogosphere that govts just shower places like CRU with money, but believe you me we have to write proposals like everyone else! We don't just say to the govt, the climate's changing and govt says great here's a few hundred K. Cheers Phil At 14:38 16/10/2008, Humphrey, Kathryn (CEOSA) wrote: Hi Phil and Clare, Wonder if you could help me! Ive just had a Parliamentary Question in from Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon)- asking how much funding by way of grants and subsidies Government has provided to CRU since 1998. Deadline for a response is 11am. on Monday. The WG contract funding is stipulated as just for UEA in the contract and not CRU specifically; Phil could you confirm that this is correct? If there are any contracts that have had with you since 1998 that I might not know about it would also be helpful to know what they were...Ill check on the system though. Do you have any idea why this MP might want to know? Kathryn Kathryn Humphrey Domestic Impacts/Adaptation Evidence Adapting to Climate Change Programme Defra tel 0207 238 3362 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only. If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose, store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the sender. Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked for known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no responsibility once it has left our systems. Communications on Defra's computer systems may be monitored and/or recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------