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	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding was allocated to (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales from the National Productivity Investment Fund in (i) 2017-18, and (ii) 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	277664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government established the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to increase capital spending for areas critical for improving productivity: housing, transport, digital infrastructure and Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D).</p><p>Digital infrastructure and R&amp;D spending are reserved so UK Government investment, including through the NPIF, covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The NPIF includes £425m in 2017-18 and £820m in 2018-19 on R&amp;D funding, and £25m in 2017-18 and £150m in 2018-19 on digital infrastructure.</p><p>Housing and transport spending is devolved, and in these areas, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government have received increases in their capital budgets as a result of applying the Barnett formula to changes in spending in England.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 22/07/2019 07:54:59 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1043175

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the National Productivity Investment Fund has been allocated to (a) housing, (b) research and development, (c) economic infrastructure and (d) skills since its inception.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	209850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government established the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to increase capital spending for areas critical for improving productivity. The NPIF is now set to deliver £37bn of high-value investment to 2023/24 in economic infrastructure, R&amp;D, and housing.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has set out how over £24bn of the NPIF will be allocated. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>£740m for digital infrastructure, to mobilise the market to develop full-fibre broadband networks and 5G capacity;</p></li><li><p>£7bn extra for R&amp;D by 2021-22 – the largest increase for 40 years – including £750m for skills and talent (PhDs and fellowships), demonstrating progress towards the government’s ambition of increasing the R&amp;D intensity of the economy to 2.4% of GDP by 2027;</p></li><li><p>£6.5bn for transport, including a £2.5bn Transforming Cities Fund, designed to drive productivity by improving intra-city transport and reducing congestion;</p></li><li><p>£13bn for housing, to build more homes in high demand locations so that people can live near the best job opportunities for them.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/01/2019 12:48:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1020230

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of money the National Productivity Investment Fund will allocate in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	199322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will provide £37 billion of capital investment between 2017-18 and 2023-24 to support jobs and growth.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has set out how over £27 billion of this funding will be allocated across housing, transport, digital infrastructure and R&amp;D. The remaining funding will be allocated at future fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of allocations can be found on page 54 of the Autumn Budget 2018 document: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:38:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

914966

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to ring-fence funding allocated from National Productivity Investment Fund to the devolved administrations.
	tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
	tabling member printed	Luke Graham
	uin	149022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) was established to provide £31 billion of additional capital spending to areas critical for improving productivity – transport, digital infrastructure, housing and R&amp;D. Where responsibility for these policy areas sits with the devolved administrations, such as housing and roads, they have received increases in their capital budgets as a result of the application of the Barnett formula to changes in spending in England. The devolved administrations have full control over how they allocate this funding.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is also investing UK-wide in sectors where it has responsibility, including research and development funding, and investment in digital infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/06/2018 12:38:39 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham