Peter Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, directed the Sheffield Anti-Bullying Intervention Project, funded by the Department for Education.
Last year David Laws quit as chief secretary to the Treasury just 17 days into the job, over claims that he had fiddled his taxpayer-funded parliamentary expenses.
According to the study, 47 per cent of all companies that supported the arts said that they had benefited, while 43 per cent could not say if the support had been of any use to the company.
Federal funding of stem-cell research has been withdrawn as a result of pressure by people-a minority among taxpayers-who take a moral stand against it.
Peter Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, directed the Sheffield Anti-Bullying Intervention Project, funded by the Department for Education.