The country needs to move rapidly away from pay-as-you-go towards fully funded individual accounts.
In the 1997 general election, he selectively funded individual Eurosceptic candidates.
The ministry wants $2.4 billion, a 5.8% increase, for grants-in-aid for scientific research, which fund individuals and small groups at universities and research centers.
Prospectively funding individuals for their research is fraught with problems that can be reduced but not eliminated.
The RHS's £250,000 contribution supports regional organisers but does not fund individual groups.
State governments have increasingly turned to tolls to fund individual projects, but tolling inevitably meets stiff public resistance.
"We said our goal was to bridge the gap in money that was left when the National Endowment for the Arts, for example, stopped funding individual artists.
The government has declined to reveal the costs of funding individual free schools but estimates the overall budget for buildings at between £110m to £130m.
Melissa Berman of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors argues that there is too much emphasis on funding individual programmes and too little on the sustainability of the non-profit organisation running the programme.
