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825690

registered interest
date	19/01/2018
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	Space Technology: Mining
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 Government is taking steps to attract the asteroid mining industry to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	123758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK Space Agency is supporting the British Space Sector including exciting new commercial ideas such as the robotic assembly and servicing of satellites in space and aligning UK leadership in small satellite manufacture with our ambition to enable commercial small satellite launch from UK spaceports.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 29/01/2018 13:22:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

824631

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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	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 amount of funding for research has been allocated by the EU to UK institutions in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	123432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regularly publish statistics on UK participations in Horizon 2020, the main EU programme for research and innovation funding. As part of Horizon 2020, between 2014 and 2017 UK organisations have been allocated €4.0 billion research funding. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-participation-in-horizon-2020-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-participation-in-horizon-2020-september-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission publishes data on the 2014-20 European Structural and Investment Funds programmes. Over €1.6bn has been allocated for research and innovation to the UK. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/countries/UK" target="_blank">https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/countries/UK#</a> .</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/01/2018 16:45:21 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

822816

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Queen's University Belfast
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 discussions he has had with Queen's University on funding for that institution for medical research.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>There have not been any recent Ministerial discussions with Queen’s University Belfast regarding funding for medical research.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides funding for medical research through the Medical Research Council (MRC). The table below sets out funding to Queen’s University Belfast over financial years 2012/13 to 2016/17:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>16/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC</p></td><td><p>2,230,000</p></td><td><p>2,513,000</p></td><td><p>2,715,000</p></td><td><p>3,554,000</p></td><td><p>3,782,264</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 22/01/2018 11:32:36 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

822991

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Medicine: Israel
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 results have been achieved from medical research conducted by British and Israeli scientists through the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	122674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>BIRAX will soon have funded 19 collaborative research projects focused on regenerative medicine and raised almost £10 million of funding, more than 90% of it from research foundations and philanthropic donors. This year a major new initiative, BIRAX Ageing, will launch which will be the main academic research theme for the next 4-5 years.</p><p>Principal Investigators presented BIRAX supported research at 71 conferences and workshops to over 21,000 Principal Investigators, postdoctoral students and students across 22 countries including the US, India, China, France, Japan, Germany, Sweden as well as to audiences in the UK and Israel. To date, 27 scientific articles have been published as a result of BIRAX projects and BIRAX funded research has been cited 635 times.</p><p>Three of the seven BIRAX projects which concluded in 2016, have registered patents and two project teams have been approached by biotech companies expressing an interest in licensing their intellectual property. Three BIRAX projects have secured further funding for research initiated under the BIRAX initiative.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/01/2018 16:52:49 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

822995

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Economic Situation
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 he has made an estimate of the value of early-phase research to the UK economy in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	122678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Industrial Strategy White Paper sets out the central role of science in meeting the UK’s productivity challenge.</p><p>We get a high rate of return for our investment in Science – 20% per annum in perpetuity - and the UK research base is highly productive in terms of article and citation outputs per researcher and per pound spent on R&amp;D. With only 0.9% of the global population, 4.1% of researchers, the UK accounts for 6.3% of research articles, 10.7% of citations and 15.2% of the most highly-cited research articles.</p><p>The UK has the largest independent multi-year rolling programme for evaluating the quality and impact of our investment in science through the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The 2014 REF, which reported in 2015, found that the quality of research from UK universities has improved significantly since 2008, consistent with other independent evidence. Just over three quarters of submissions were either ‘World Class’ or ‘Internationally Excellent’. Preparations for the next REF due in 2021 have already started.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/01/2018 14:09:44 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah previous answer version 35204 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

823056

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Space Technology
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 sum his Department has spent on the UK space sector since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	122739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK Space Agency was established on 1 April 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The net operating expenditure for the period is £2.253bn, between the Agency’s establishment, up to and including the 2017/18 budget allocation.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18*</p></td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net operating expenditure</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>371</p></td><td><p>399</p></td><td><p><strong>2,253</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>*Budget allocation for the financial year</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Key segments of investment are subscriptions to the European Space Agency (ESA) which results in ESA expenditure with UK companies under the ‘juste retour’ policy, National Programme grants and other International Partnerships e.g. ODA delivered through UK companies.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in the published UK Space Agency Annual Report and Accounts for each financial year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/01/2018 10:38:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

820766

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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, whether the UK leaving the EU will affect the contracts to produce the payloads for the European Union Global Navigation satellite system in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	122184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Report issued by the UK and EU negotiating teams on 8 December was clear that UK entities would be able to continue to participate in all EU programmes, including the space programmes, financed by the current Multiannual Financial Framework, which ends in 2020. Clearly there will be further discussions on exactly what this means for the individual programmes during Phase 2 of negotiations, but the principle set out in the report is that eligibility of entities located in the UK will be unaffected by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/01/2018 14:36:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

819131

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	Medicine: 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 estimate his Department has made of the yearly gross amount of public funding currently being invested in health research.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold data for total Departmental spend on health research. However, the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) have published their 2014 UK health research analysis at <a href="http://www.ukcrc.org/research-coordination/health-research-analysis/uk-health-research-analysis/" target="_blank">http://www.ukcrc.org/research-coordination/health-research-analysis/uk-health-research-analysis/</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/01/2018 12:47:30 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

818709

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Innovate UK
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 was allocated to each NUTS 1 region by Innovate UK in each year since 2007-08.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Innovate UK funds businesses of all sizes so that they can create new products and processes to drive economic growth across the UK. The following are the top-line figures for Innovate UK funding committed by NUTS 1 region since 2007/08 up to and including 2017/18.</p><p>The numbers have as their source the transparency data for live projects published on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Funding Committed (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>283,419,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>461,104,972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1,101,261,582</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>449,350,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>207,041,458</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>62,752,435</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outside UK</p></td><td><p>3,607,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>307,480,863</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>833,743,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>677,023,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>87,598,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>530,893,361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>368,127,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,373,405,002</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/01/2018 15:01:17 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

818710

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Innovate UK: Staff
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 Full-Time Equivalent staff are employed by Innovate UK, in each NUTS 1 region.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Section 4.3 of Innovate UK’s 2016/7 Annual Report and Accounts confirms the total number of staff to be 303, with 259 permanent members and 44 interim/agency staff. The majority of the staff are based in Swindon and its surrounding areas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/01/2018 15:00:26 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson