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1024811

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	UK Research and Innovation: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the funding per head of population was by (a) UK Research and Innovation and (b) its predecessor bodies in (i) each region of England and (ii) the nations of the UK in each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	202141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) was created on 1 April 2018 and so did not exist as a legal entity in previous financial years. Figures have been provided for its predecessor bodies for the most recent financial years available. The table shows expenditure by the nine councils that now make up UKRI, per head of population in each region and nation of the UK. The expenditure figures include research council and Innovate UK grants, and HEFCE/Research England’s Research Capital Investment Fund, Quality-related research (QR) funding and Higher Education Innovation Funding.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">£ per person</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2012/2013</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2013/2014</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2014/2015</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2015/2016</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2016/2017</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">East of England</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">108</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">109</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">110</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">112</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">112</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">London</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">127</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">136</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">144</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">126</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">116</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Midlands</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">59</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">64</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">75</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">67</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">North East</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">98</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">80</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">75</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">64</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">62</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">North West</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">53</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">58</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">59</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">60</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">55</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">South East</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">57</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">54</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">63</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">53</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">51</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">South West</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">63</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">65</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">85</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Yorkshire and the Humber</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">62</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">64</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">67</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">79</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>England</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">79</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">81</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">88</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">81</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">77</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">12</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">15</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">17</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">18</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Scotland</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">67</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">63</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">74</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">65</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">62</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Wales</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">27</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">25</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">25</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">22</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">£ per person</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2012/2013</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2013/2014</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2014/2015</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2015/2016</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2016/2017</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">East of England</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">108</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">109</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">110</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">112</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">112</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">London</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">156</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">166</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">174</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">152</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">140</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Midlands</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">48</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">53</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">62</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">56</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">56</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">North East</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">98</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">80</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">75</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">64</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">62</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">North West</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">53</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">58</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">59</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">60</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">55</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">South East</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">119</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">118</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">139</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">127</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">127</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">South West</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">63</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">65</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">85</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">68</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">68</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Yorkshire and the Humber</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">62</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">64</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">67</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">79</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">68</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>England</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">89</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">92</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">100</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">93</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">90</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">12</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">15</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">17</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">18</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">16</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Scotland</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">67</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">63</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">74</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">65</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">62</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Wales</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">27</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">25</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">25</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">22</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/12/2018 14:18:51 question first ministerially corrected 10/01/2019 10:03:25 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 92448 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1029546

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Global Navigation Satellite Systems
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2018 to Question 202300 on Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Costs, when the engineering, design, and development phase is expected to report.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	204443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The EDDP phase of the programme is expected to complete within the first half of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/01/2019 15:40:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 94113 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1051418

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a response to Early Day Motion 66 entitled Applying results of experiments on animals to human patients.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	214583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that animals should only be used when there is no practicable alternative and it actively supports and funds the development and dissemination of techniques that replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in research (the 3Rs), in particular through funding for the National Centre for the 3Rs, and also through ongoing UK-led efforts to encourage greater global uptake of the 3Rs. Advances in biomedical science and technologies – including stem cell research, in vitro systems that mimic the function of human organs, imaging and new computer modelling techniques – are all providing new opportunities to reduce reliance on the use of animals in research.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/02/2019 15:11:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 99571 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1086662

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	European Research Council: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal principal investigators in receipt of European Research Council funding who are based outside the UK will qualify for the Government's Horizon 2020 underwrite if they move their research base to the UK (a) before or (b) after the date of EU exit.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	230645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>In the event of a no deal, the Government underwrite will cover the payment of awards to UK beneficiaries for all successful bids to Horizon 2020, including the European Research Council, for the lifetime of projects.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Further guidance on how the underwrite will work in practice will be published in due course.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This includes Horizon 2020 grants that have been transferred to the UK before the date of EU exit. We will seek to publish further guidance in due course on how the underwrite will apply to Horizon 2020 grantees based outside of the UK that are planning to move their research base to the UK.</ins></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/03/2019 17:29:33 question first ministerially corrected 18/03/2019 10:13:53 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 107856 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1088459

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Research: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding as a percentage of GDP that was allocated to research and development by (a) Government, (b) public sector organisations excluding local authorities and (c)the private sector in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The figures below are based those on the ONS release “Gross domestic expenditure on research and development, UK: 2017”</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.61%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.65%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.58%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.61%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.63%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.65%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.67%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1.69%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government</p></td><td><p>0.19%</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td><td><p>0.17%</p></td><td><p>0.20%</p></td><td><p>0.19%</p></td><td><p>0.19%</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Research Councils</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td><td><p>0.16%</p></td><td><p>0.16%</p></td><td><p>0.16%</p></td><td><p>0.15%</p></td><td><p>0.15%</p></td><td><p>0.15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Higher Education Funding Councils</p></td><td><p>0.14%</p></td><td><p>0.14%</p></td><td><p>0.13%</p></td><td><p>0.13%</p></td><td><p>0.12%</p></td><td><p>0.12%</p></td><td><p>0.11%</p></td><td><p>0.11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business Enterprise <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>0.71%</p></td><td><p>0.75%</p></td><td><p>0.74%</p></td><td><p>0.74%</p></td><td><p>0.77%</p></td><td><p>0.82%</p></td><td><p>0.88%</p></td><td><p>0.91%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Higher Education <sup>1, 4</sup></p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td><td><p>0.00%</p></td><td><p>0.01%</p></td><td><p>0.01%</p></td><td><p>0.01%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private Non-Profit <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.08%</p></td><td><p>0.09%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overseas</p></td><td><p>0.30%</p></td><td><p>0.31%</p></td><td><p>0.30%</p></td><td><p>0.30%</p></td><td><p>0.30%</p></td><td><p>0.28%</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td><td><p>0.24%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1 Following further quality assurance of the flow of funding within the higher education sector it was decided to remove the element relating to funding between higher education establishments.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 Prior to 2011 PNP data were estimated. From 2011 data has been collected from a biennial survey with non-survey years being estimated using data from survey years.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 Estimates of launch investment loan repayments received by government from business have been removed following a review of how these payments should be reported. These loan repayments are in relation to loans given out in previous years and therefore should not be included in current totals of R&amp;D expenditure. The total of loan repayments have been removed from the total funding by business and the UK total for 2013, and 2015, there were no repayments in 2014. In current prices the values removed were 2013 (£212 million) and 2015 (£112 million).</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4 New higher education financial reporting standards starting on or after 1 January 2015 have resulted in significant changes in how financial performance is reported. This presents difficulties in comparing results from 2015 onwards with historical trends.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Please Note:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Differences may occur between totals and the sum of their independently rounded components.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/03/2019 17:43:17 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 108507 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088460

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Photonics: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the Government has allocated to research into (a) photonics and (b) optoelectronics in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds high quality research and innovation for BEIS as part of the Government’s wider ambition to increase the UK’s total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. All proposals are assessed through peer review and funding is not usually ringfenced for particular research areas or topics.</p><p> </p><p>Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) is the primary funder of these areas within UKRI. The table below summarises the value of all current grants from EPSRC, in research and training for the relevant research portfolios: Photonic Materials, Optoelectronic Devices and a combined figure for Optical Communications and Optical Devices and Subsystems.</p><p> </p><p>Please note other research is being carried out in this area, both in other UKRI councils and outside of UKRI, but we are unable to determine the monetary value of this in the time allowed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Photonic Materials</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Research into other Photonic Technology (Communications and </strong> <strong>Optical Devices)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>£ 65.78M</p></td><td><p>£ 19.43M</p></td><td><p>£ 51.92M</p></td><td><p>£ 5.76M</p></td><td><p>£48.21M</p></td><td><p>£12.71M</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£ 65.46M</p></td><td><p>£ 21.40M</p></td><td><p>£ 54.87M</p></td><td><p>£ 6.56M</p></td><td><p>£51.87M</p></td><td><p>£11.57M</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£ 60.29M</p></td><td><p>£ 18.74M</p></td><td><p>£ 48.24M</p></td><td><p>£ 6.63M</p></td><td><p>£48.97M</p></td><td><p>£10.67M</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>My rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement an £81 million investment in a national Extreme Photonics Application Centre in Oxfordshire. In addition, EPSRC has confirmed continued funding for two existing Centres for Doctoral Training in ICT Photonics as well as investment in a new CDT which will contribute to this area</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/03/2019 11:24:58 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 108508 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1109712

	registered interest
	date	04/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Animal Feed: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment he has made of the (a) number and (b) extent of trials of animal feed in the UK and Canada; and what estimate he has made of the level of funding available for that research.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	241033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made a commitment to increase overall investment in R&amp;D to 2.4% of GDP by 2027, which would be the highest recorded level, and 3% in the longer-term. As part of this, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds research into animal feed and agriculture more widely. However funding is not generally ringfenced for specific research areas and is decided based on the quality of the application.</p><p> </p><p>Innovate UK, now part of UKRI, has provided investment to the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) to cover the start-up costs required to bring together a research base of 12 leading UK academic institutions and over 45 industry partners. The Centre will meet its wider costs through funding obtained from competitively won collaborative research and development grants and industrial partner membership fees.</p><p> </p><p>CIEL has helped to co-fund the development of new research facilities such as the £9.4 million CIEL Spen farm at the University of Leeds to provide a new indoor facility to carry out pig nutrition, behaviour, welfare and production system research and deliver feed recommendations to keep pace with ongoing genetic improvements.</p><p> </p><p>CIEL is one of four Agri-Tech centres that were funded as part of the Agri-Tech Strategy that was launched in 2013 as part of a £160 million commitment to UK Agriculture .</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/04/2019 08:54:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 113028 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1124002

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Health: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and the Industrial Strategy, whether local health profiles influence the allocation of public investment in health research.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	249283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Health and Social Care funds health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR funds ‘needs-led’ applied research – it aims to address issues that matter to the NHS and public health by identifying gaps in knowledge, and funding research that provides high-quality evidence to fill such gaps.</p><p> </p><p>In order to achieve this, NIHR undertakes activities to identify needs, working closely with users of research evidence – those responsible for establishing policy, commissioning services and delivering care.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme funds regionally derived applied research projects in health services and social care. The main purpose of the programme is to realise, through evidence, the huge potential for improving, expanding and strengthening the way that healthcare is delivered for patients, the public and the NHS through locally generated priorities.</p><p> </p><p>In deciding which projects to support, we take care to involve not only scientific reviewers and experienced researchers, but also practitioners and service users. We also appoint public members to our Regional Advisory Panels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation, a partner organisation of BEIS, funds medical research primarily through the Medical Research Council (MRC). MRC welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health and is committed to funding excellence. MRC recognises the value of information such as local health profiles for identifying future research areas, but there is the need to balance this against wider opportunities and allow for investigator-led proposals to inform our priorities too.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 09/05/2019 16:52:32 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 116723 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1129641

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Coal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of existing coal stocks to meet expected needs for electricity generation before coal is phased out.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	259966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The latest statistics are publicly available (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fsolid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends&amp;data=02%7C01%7Celizabeth.twomey%40beis.gov.uk%7C1e9c4adfd2e34cc9daf108d6e9b48cf2%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636953358993851618&amp;sdata=KafUNWRYL193z1tkjts6rs9aYJyQH%2BQu1rCT7q0xBNU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Energy Trends table 2.1</a>.)</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to ending unabated coal power by 2025. As a result of our existing policies, including carbon pricing and our support for renewables, we have already made great headway in reducing our reliance on coal, which fell from 39% of electricity in 2012 to 5% in 2018. There are now regular coal free periods, and in May the UK went without running coal power generation for over two weeks – the longest coal-free period in the country since the 1880s.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:27:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 121637 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

1129789

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to support communities that wish to invest in renewable community energy.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	260088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>BEIS supports communities that wish to invest in renewable community energy. At the end of May, the Rural Community Energy Fund re-opened to support communities seeking to develop a wide range of low carbon activities. The £10m fund provides grants to communities for feasibility studies to scope out ideas, and where projects are viable, another grant to help develop the project to investment readiness.</p><p> </p><p>The Rural Community Energy Fund will be delivered through the Local Energy Hubs which were created as part of the BEIS Local Energy Programme. There are five Hubs across England, including one in the North West which is managed by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. The Hubs also provide wider commercial, technical and project management support to enable communities and Local Authorities to develop low carbon energy projects.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS acknowledge the importance of a route to market for small-scale low-carbon generation for communities. On 10 June we launched the Smart Export Guarantee, which will ensure that small-scale low-carbon generators are paid for the power they export to the grid. The SEG provides space for innovative market solutions to come forward, and supports the uptake of flexible technologies such as batteries - reinforcing our smart energy agenda.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible community projects will be able to benefit from the SEG, however we recognise that it may be more suitable for some projects than others. We are continuing to consider what measures we could take to support the efforts of communities that wish to invest in low-carbon community energy.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 11/06/2019 15:49:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 121635 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon