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1109341

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Engineering: Construction
	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 he is taking to ensure major construction and engineering projects are undertaken under the auspices of relevant national agreements between the employer and the workforce including the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	240645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises that national agreements may play a valuable role in supporting positive employee relations, working rules, wages, and terms and conditions of employment. The making of such agreements and decisions on when to utilise them, however, is a matter for the parties concerned.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/04/2019 14:03:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

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

1091414

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	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	Bombardier: Contracts
	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 plans he has to support Bombardier to secure future contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	234191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>We continue work closely with both Bombardier Aerostructures and Engineering Services and Invest Northern Ireland (INI) to identify opportunities for securing new work to help grow the Company’s business in Belfast. As previously announced, we and INI are providing around £27 million funding to support Bombardier’s investment in new R&amp;D projects to enable Bombardier to develop and manufacture new, competitive products to secure their long-term future. Bombardier, like many of our innovative companies in the UK Aerospace sector, benefit from Department for International Trade’s overseas network, promoting their products and services to new customers in key markets. UK Export Finance have and will continue to provide (on a case by case basis) export finance support on Bombardier products, including the A220. UKEF has, to date, supported the deliveries of 10 A220s to Korean Air.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 27/03/2019 13:37:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104700

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Finance
	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 recent progress his Department has made in ensuring the UK meets its 2.4% GDP target for R&D funding.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow on 27th March 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-11/230812/" target="_blank">230812</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/03/2019 14:47:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104701

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: 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 recent steps his Department has taken in ensuring continuity of funding for research projects with EU funding in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for North Hereforshire on 26 March 2019 to the Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-18/233471/" target="_blank">233471</a> on the funding of research projects with EU funding.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/03/2019 14:47:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104702

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Finance
	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 the £7 billion of additional spending for research and development will be in addition to replacing EU funding lost after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>At Spending Review 2015, the Government protected science funding, committing to invest £26.3 billion between 2016-21, and has since committed to an additional £7 billion by 2021-22 – the largest increase ever. The terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, if ratified, would provide for continued UK participation in EU Programmes, including Horizon 2020, to December 2020 and for the lifetime of projects under the programme. If an agreement is reached, projects approved during this period will be able to continue with an uninterrupted flow of EU funding. If we leave the EU without a deal in place, the underwrite guarantee and extension are Government commitments to provide funding required for the UK to participate in Horizon 2020 until the end of 2020 and for the lifetime of projects. In this scenario, HM Treasury will provide additional funding on top of existing departmental budgets – further demonstrating the Government’s commitment to the UK’s world-class research base.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/03/2019 14:47:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104703

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Finance
	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 support a targeted capacity building approach to his Department’s funding of research and development.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s commitment to increase overall investment in R&amp;D to 2.4% of GDP by 2027, we are supporting capacity building in a number of ways.</p><p> </p><p>For example, we are building research talent, increasing investment in early career researchers through a £900 million Future Leaders Fellowship programme. In addition, we are boosting capacity in artificial intelligence through new AI Masters and AI Centres for Doctoral Training, delivering 1,000 additional PhDs in AI and Turing AI Fellows.</p><p> </p><p>We are also boosting capacity in specific places across the UK, building on R&amp;D strengths through our Strength in Places Fund. Twenty-four ambitious projects from pharmaceuticals to aerospace, and transport to the creative economy, are to receive early-stage funding to develop full-stage bids that could lead to significant economic growth in places across the country. For example, Artemis Technologies is leading a bid to build a facility in Belfast Harbour that will focus on the decarbonisation of maritime transportation.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 02/04/2019 13:03:19 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1109046

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
	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 21 March 2019 to Question 232031 on Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions, what the £200 million of forecast spend has been spent on in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	240013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The 2018/19 £200 million budget has been targeted at supporting the early market for ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs). This includes: support for the purchase of vehicles; the installation of the necessary recharging and refuelling infrastructure; a focused R&amp;D programme to support development of innovative technologies; a joint government - industry communications campaign; and support for local authorities to introducing a range of policies to support wider ULEV uptake in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/04/2019 14:02:45 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1088440

	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: 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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of ring-fencing Medical Research Council funds for biomedical research into ME in order to ensure that overall research funding for ME is proportional to that spent on research into similarly prevalent health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	uin	231931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>The Medical Research Council (MRC) is part of the BEIS partner organisation, UK Research and Innovation. The MRC supports research relating to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) in response to high-quality proposals from the research community.</p><p> </p><p>The MRC does not generally ring-fence funding for specific conditions, however CFS/ME is an identified priority area for the MRC. Proposals are particularly encouraged in areas that explore the underpinning mechanisms of CFS/ME (including immune dysregulation), pain, improved sub-phenotyping and stratification of CFS/ME disease, and mechanisms of CFS/ME in children.</p><p> </p><p>All proposals are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made according to their scientific quality and importance to human health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/03/2019 11:25:25 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham