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date	08/09/2016
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	Motor Vehicles: Telecommunications
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 research his Department is undertaking on standards for short-range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	45690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles is currently engaged in the second phase of a joint project with the British Standards Institute and the Transport Systems Catapult to map current standards, identify gaps, and determine how best to utilise standards in support of UK industry. This work encompasses vehicle connectivity such as short-range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and will report early next year.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/09/2016 10:48:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

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registered interest
date	08/09/2016
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	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, if he will pursue an expanded national space programme alongside the UK's contribution to the European Space Agency.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	45694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK obtains excellent value from its investment as a member of the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing UK scientists to engage in world-class science in earth observation, space science, exploration, robotics and microgravity research, and providing significant commercial opportunities for UK industry.</p><p>The UK’s investment in ESA enables our involvement in research programmes like the Rosetta-Philae mission (the first ever landing on a comet) and the GAIA mission (mapping the galaxy in an unprecedented level of detail.</p><p>In addition to our investments through ESA, the UK also funds a National Programme, whose budget has grown from around £20m p.a. when the Agency was established on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2011, to £88m p.a..</p><p>The Government protected funding for space in cash terms in the recent spending review, and both our investment in ESA, and our National Space Programme, support the development of the UK space sector, which is growing at a much faster rate than the economy as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 13:54:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner