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528869

registered interest
date	27/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Metals: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote and (b) co-ordinate research into the (i) use and (ii) manufacture of (A) steel, (B) glass, (C) plastics, (D) aluminium, (E) titanium and (F) other alloys.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	41251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK oversee coordination and promotion of research in these and other areas.</p><p>The White Paper, ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy,’ set out the Government’s plans to create UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI will ensure our research and innovation system is sufficiently integrated, strategic and agile to meet current and future challenges and deliver national capability that drives discovery and growth.</p><p>EPSRC has a portfolio of over £450m of materials-related research covering the breadth of materials (including the metals/alloys identified, glass and plastics), from fundamental physics to the re-use and remanufacture of advanced new alloys and other materials.</p><p>Innovate UK’s Delivery Plan for 2016/17 sets out support through its Manufacturing and Materials Directorate which includes a twice-yearly £15m collaborative research and development fund aimed at both manufacturing and materials.</p><p>Innovate UK has also provided over £70m funding to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, which includes some materials manufacturing and development research, for example materials research at the National Composite Centre (composites and plastics), the Advanced Forming Research Centre (powder metallurgy), the Manufacturing Technology Centre (Additive Layer Manufacturing) and Centre For Process Innovation (polymer research).</p><p>The Henry Royce Institute has a work stream in Advanced Materials Processing, and will seek to coordinate the infrastructure supporting UK-based advanced materials research providing national capability.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 05/07/2016 10:57:10 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

527972

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the potential merits of establishing a materials catapult for manufacturing.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	41077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2016 answer text The Department refers proposals for new Catapults to Innovate UK, who have an established process for considering the case for new Catapult Centres. This includes proposals for Materials Centres. Innovate UK currently consider the broad materials needs of the manufacturing sector are well served by existing Catapults and Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs). answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/06/2016 16:18:43 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 5304 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

512409

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding his Department provided to each of its partner organisations in each year from 2010; and what the (a) type and (b) sector of those organisations is.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Table 1 sets out the total funding provided to the Department’s partner organisations for each financial year since 2009-10. Funding includes grant-in-aid funding or an increased equity investment.</p><p>Table 2 sets out these partner organisations according to type and sector. <br> <br> Since 2010 the Department has significantly reduced its number of partner organisations down to 44. We committed to further reductions as part of the BIS2020 programme of departmental transformation to make the Department cheaper and simpler, and to deliver better services to users.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 22/04/2016 12:40:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone attachment 1 file name Word Version of Supporting Table for PQ (EF).doc title Partner organisation funding statistics
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

511269

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding his Department has provided for big data projects in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the potential of Big Data and is taking steps to ensure the UK is at the forefront of research and innovation in this field.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are only available from 2011, and since that time, the Government has invested over £520 million in developing the UK’s big data and high-performance computing capital infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>This includes major investments in specialist centres such as the Alan Turing Institute, the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, the Higgs Centre for Innovation, and the Hartree Centre at the Daresbury Science &amp; Innovation Campus.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/04/2016 16:37:57 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

486936

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the quality of information and data used to inform his Department's investment prioritisation process; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is committed to ensuring that all of its key policies and programmes are based on high quality evidence and subject to robust monitoring and evaluation. The foundation for this vision was set out in the Department’s Evaluation Strategy published in December 2014 and the first update - BIS Evaluation Plan 2016.</p><p>A substantial amount of work is undertaken across the Department to better understand, and develop, the evidence underpinning investment options. For example, in preparation for Spending Review 2015, the Department thoroughly reviewed its evidence base, through Evidence Challenge Panels (ECP) and an Investment Gateway (IG) process. The ECP membership consisted of Directors of spend areas and provided senior peer review of work underway to address the key evidence gaps and to support longer term planning to develop BIS’ evidence base. The IG was set up to support prioritisation of spend and ensure investment decisions are based on robust business cases consisting of strategic, economic, financial, management and commercial assessments. The IG panel includes the chief analyst and DG finance. The ECP and IG in turn fed into the Department’s submissions to HM Treasury for the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/04/2016 11:40:33 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

486937

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Science: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will conduct an assessment of UK science infrastructure to inform departmental decision-making on spending priorities.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 April 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-03-22/32088/" target="_blank">32088</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/04/2016 11:36:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

484446

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Science: Job Creation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many jobs each of the 56 science capital projects his Department has funded since 2007 has created.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>BIS’s investment in science capital projects supports the UK’s world class research base, which directly employed around 260,000 researchers in 2013 and delivers a significant return to the economy. Further jobs are supported by investment, for example through construction of advanced facilities or improved Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills. However, job creation is not the primary aim of science capital projects, and has not been measured for each project, so it is not possible to provide the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that research is vital to our wellbeing and future economic success. This is why the science capital budget was increased to £1.1bn in 2015/16 and will rise with inflation to a total of £6.9bn over the period 2015 to 2021.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/04/2016 16:24:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

484448

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Student Loans Company and HM Revenue and Customs spent on maintaining and collecting student loan repayments in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have spent the following on maintaining and collecting income contingent repayments since the financial year 2011-12:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Student Loans Company</p></td><td><p>HM Revenue and Customs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2011-12</p></td><td><p>£15.7m</p></td><td><p>£5.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2012-13</p></td><td><p>£15.6m</p></td><td><p>£6.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2013-14</p></td><td><p>£18.6m</p></td><td><p>£5.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2014-15</p></td><td><p>£18.5m</p></td><td><p>£5.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2015-16</p></td><td><p>£20.9m (forecast)</p></td><td><p>£6.3m (forecast)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures in the table above include both the direct costs and associated ICT and back office overheads incurred by SLC and HMRC in maintaining and collecting income contingent repayments.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/04/2016 16:10:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

484449

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Science: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to conduct a systematic analysis of existing science and research-based infrastructure in the UK for the purpose of guiding his Department's future investment priorities.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is considering the National Audit Office’s recent report on capital investment in science projects, and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All funding decisions are subject to BIS and HM Treasury’s rigorous scrutiny process and must pass a robust business case process before spending is approved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/04/2016 14:11:31 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

480612

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the level of funding for research and development on productivity.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>There is clear and robust evidence of a link between research and development (R&amp;D) spending and national productivity. Research indicates that every £1 the UK government invests in R&amp;D generates a return of 20p per annum in perpetuity<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. In addition that £1 of public expenditure leverages an average of £1.36 in private investment<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>, generating even greater returns for the UK.</p><p>This Government recognises the value of science and innovation as a driver of UK economic success. That is why we are protecting the science ring-fence in real terms during this Parliament at £4.7 billion per annum and investing a record £6.9 billion in science capital from 2015 to 2021.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Haskel, Hughes and Bascavusoglu-Moreau (2014) “The Economic Significance of the UK Science Base” <a href="http://sciencecampaign.org.uk/UKScienceBase.pdf" target="_blank">http://sciencecampaign.org.uk/UKScienceBase.pdf</a>.</p><p>[2] Economic Insight (2014) “What is the relationship between public and private investment in science, research and innovation” <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/438763/bis-15-340-relationship-between-public-and-private-investment-in-R-D.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/438763/bis-15-340-relationship-between-public-and-private-investment-in-R-D.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:34:14 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan