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533641

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 representations the Minister of State for Universities and Science has made to his European counterparts since the EU referendum on access to EU research grants for UK researchers.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	42202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made clear, while the UK remains a member of the EU, current EU funding and collaboration arrangements continue unchanged, including those that apply to students, researchers, and businesses. I am in close contact with Commissioner Moedas on the topic of Horizon 2020 funding, and I met with the Italian Minister for Education, Universities and Research on 11 July.</p><p>The UK is world-class in research and innovation and we play a leading role in major European and international collaboration, including ESA and CERN.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 42184 42196 question first answered 20/07/2016 14:47:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

606030

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 UK-based research institutions will be able to access the EU's Horizon 2020 programme until 2020; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	49430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>UK-based researchers can continue to apply for competitive EU research funding through the Horizon 2020 programme while we remain a member of the EU. We will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. Access to apply to Horizon 2020 after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 03/11/2016 14:34:32 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

620072

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 discussions he has had with EU Science Commissioner Carlos Moedas on potential discrimination against UK academics who bid for EU funding.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	49885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>I am in close contact with Commissioner Moedas, who has responsibility for EU science, research and innovation and we have both publicly emphasised the importance of continuing to work together to produce high quality research. In addition, the European Commission has made it clear that while the UK remains a member of the EU, proposals from, or including, UK applicants must be treated in the same way as applications from other Member States. The Department remains vigilant and open to evidence of problems in this area. Specific instances of these problems can be fed back to the email address <a href="mailto:research@beis.gov.uk" target="_blank">research@beis.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/11/2016 16:04:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

626571

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 funding to UK-based consortia from the EU Horizon 2020 programme in each of the next four years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	51506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>From the start of Horizon 2020 to February 2016 UK participants won a total of €1.8bn or around 15% of all awards made<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>While the UK remains a member of the EU, funding and collaboration arrangements continue unchanged. Researchers can continue to bid for competitive EU research funding such as Horizon 2020 while we remain a member of the EU. The Government will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. Access to apply to Horizon 2020 and subsequent funding programmes after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p><p><sup>1</sup><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-participation-in-horizon-2020-and-framework-programme-7" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-participation-in-horizon-2020-and-framework-programme-7</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/11/2016 15:04:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 18828 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

626573

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 match EU funding for universities and other research institutions for (a) the Erasmus plus programme and (b) any other sources of non-Horizon 2020 funding after the UK has left the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	51507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under the Erasmus scheme or applying for 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access to the programme after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations.</p><p>In terms of non-Horizon 2020 funding, the Treasury has guaranteed all competitive funding, where recipients bid directly to the Commission for funds. Where bids submitted before the UK leaves the EU are successful, the Treasury will underwrite this funding, even if it continues past the point of exit. The Treasury has also guaranteed structural and investment fund projects signed before the UK departs the EU so long as they provide strong value for money and are in line with domestic strategic priorities.</p><p>In the long term leaving the EU means we will want to take our own decisions about how to deliver the policy objectives previously targeted by EU funding. Over the coming months, we will consult closely with stakeholders to review all EU funding schemes in the round, to ensure that any ongoing funding commitments best serve the UK‘s national interest, while ensuring appropriate investor certainty.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/11/2016 14:00:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

631261

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 plans to put in place to ensure that academic collaboration between UK and EU research institutions continues after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	52075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>The UK will maintain its status as a global centre for research and innovation. In last year’s Spending Review the Government committed to protecting science resource funding in real terms from its 2015 level of £4.7 billion a year for the rest of the parliament, as well as committing to invest in new scientific infrastructure on a record scale – £6.9 billion over the period 2015-2021.</p><p>While the UK remains a member of the EU, funding and collaboration arrangements continue unchanged. Researchers can continue to bid for competitive EU research funding such as Horizon 2020 while we remain a member of the EU. The Government will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. This decision gives British participants and their EU partners the assurance and certainty needed to plan ahead for collaborative projects that can run over many years.</p><p>Access to apply to Horizon 2020 and subsequent funding programmes after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/11/2016 10:51:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

631280

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 3 November 2016 to Question 49430, what guidance his Department is providing to UK-based research institutions on research proposals to be submitted to Horizon 2010 after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	52178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>As set out in my answer to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-10-19/49430/" target="_blank">49430</a>, access to apply for Horizon 2020 after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p><p>UK-based researchers can continue to apply for competitive EU research funding through the Horizon 2020 programme while we remain a member of the EU. We will work with the European Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment for such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. Access to apply for Horizon 2020 after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/11/2016 10:50:35 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637246

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 he plans for his Department to contribute towards the Economic and Social Research Council grant programme, UK in a Changing Europe.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	53082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has allocated £366m to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to spend on excellent research in the social sciences between April 2016 and March 2018. All Research Councils abide by the Haldane principle; how they spend their allocated funding is decided independently by ESRC’s council. The full programme expenditure for The UK in a Changing Europe currently stands at £4.95m; the programme began in 2014 and is scheduled to continue until December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/11/2016 12:56:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

641392

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 many companies were in receipt of EU research and innovation funding in (a) the UK and (b) Wales in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
	uin	53866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>Companies in the UK can receive research and innovation funding through two different EU programmes: Horizon 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.</p><p>Between January 2014 and September 2016 1,011 UK companies were awarded funding from Horizon 2020 with a total value of €564m. Of this total, 25 companies are from Wales who have been awarded €10m.</p><p>Support for companies for Research and Innovation from the European Regional Development Fund is most often provided through intermediaries such as universities and knowledge transfer centres and it is not possible to say how many companies have received funding until projects have been completed and the outputs verified. As most projects last for about three years, it is too early to give a figure from the 2014-2020 programmes.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/11/2016 16:14:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

658044

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2016
	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: EU Grants and Loans
	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 many research project applicants for Horizon 2020 funding have applied to receive Government funding in the event that when the UK leaves the EU the UK is no longer a participant in Horizon 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	57359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my rt. hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury today to Question UIN 57694:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-14/57694/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-14/57694/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 57357 57358 57360 57669 57684 question first answered 20/12/2016 14:48:15 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman