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802374

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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: Investment
	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 encourage greater private sector investment in research and development; and if he will make a statement
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	118061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to raising investment in research and development to 2.4% of GDP by 2027 as part of the Industrial Strategy. As a first step, we are increasing public investment in research and development (R&amp;D) from around £9.5bn last year to around £12.5bn in 2021/22 – increasing public R&amp;D spending as a share of GDP each year and making a total increase of £7bn over five years. This will be the biggest ever increase in public funding of R&amp;D. In 2018, we will publish a roadmap that sets out how Government and industry will work together to reach the 2.4% target by 2027.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/12/2017 16:00:12 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1388799

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2021
	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: Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 72 of the UK Innovation Strategy, published in July 2021, what steps his Department has taken to improve the regional distribution of private R&D investment.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	94374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The 2021 Spending Review set out the Government’s plan to increase public R&amp;D spending to £22 billion a year by 2026/27 and restates our target for UK economy-wide R&amp;D investment to reach 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Private investment forms around 2/3rd of current activity, so it is only by working with innovative businesses and funders from the private sector that we will reach 2.4%. The Innovation Strategy commits to using levers such as procurement, better regulation and the identification of key technologies as a means to create the conditions for private sector investment in innovation across the country.</p><p> </p><p>We want to encourage businesses to invest in local economies and communities. The Innovation Strategy also outlined our thinking on how to grow innovation clusters, and to ensure that research and innovation benefits the economy and society across the UK through both systemic and targeted measures that respond to the varying needs of places. It announced £127 million in new investment through the Strength In Places Fund. This fund has pioneered bringing together consortia of diverse local actors, including business, to develop the R&amp;D capabilities of places across the UK to improve local economic growth. The Government is investing over £300 million in 12 major projects in nations and regions across the UK, attracting an additional £340 million of investment including from private firms.</p><p> </p><p>The forthcoming Levelling Up White Paper will take a comprehensive place-based approach to economic growth and will set out more detail on how the Government will support levelling up through R&amp;D.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 06/01/2022 16:21:42 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1417520

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2022
	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: Investment
	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 (a) the proportion of private sector investment which is outside of the Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London and (b) how that has increased or decreased over the last decade.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	113100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>Business expenditure on R&amp;D (BERD) demonstrates the amount of R&amp;D performed by UK businesses, and is the nearest for private sector investment. In 2020, the regions of Greater London, the East of England, and South East of England accounted for 55% of total UK BERD. Since 2010, BERD outside these regions has ranged from 45% - 49%, peaking at 49% in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how we will maximise the contribution of innovation to levelling up. This includes a new goal that domestic public investment in R&amp;D outside the Greater South East will increase by at least one third over the Spending Review period and at least 40 percent by 2030, with that additional government funding seeking to leverage at least twice as much private sector investment over the long term to stimulate innovation and productivity growth.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS has published a R&amp;D spatial data tool (<a href="https://www" target="_blank">https://www</a>.gov.uk/guidance/access-research-and-development-spatial-data) which allows users to access, visualise and compare indicators that show the scale of R&amp;D systems at a subregional level over time. This includes metrics that proxy for private R&amp;D and innovation and can be reviewed for all UK regions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/02/2022 13:54:33 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1417630

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2022
	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: Investment
	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 private R&D investment is estimated to be crowded in for each pound of public R&D spend; how that estimate is calculated; and whether that is dependent on (a) geography and (b) sector.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	113732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>BEIS published “<em>The relationship between public and private R&amp;D funding</em>” (BEIS Research Paper Number 2020/010) on 1 July 2020 at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-and-development-relationship-between-public-and-private-funding(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-and-development-relationship-between-public-and-private-funding(opens in a new tab)</a> carried out by Oxford Economics Ltd<br></p><p>They estimated the monetary impact of the long-run leverage rate, suggesting that each £1 of public R&amp;D eventually stimulates between £1.96 and £2.34 of private R&amp;D</p><p>The study drew on OECD data for 41 countries from 1961 to 2017 with varying degrees of completeness.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/02/2022 13:48:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1436823

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2022
	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: Investment
	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 (a) review all Belarusian and Russian beneficiaries of UK R&D spending and (b) assess how much R&D investment in the UK comes from Russia or Belarus.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	131179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>As I noted on 27 February, BEIS is rapidly reviewing all Russian beneficiaries of UK science, research, technology and innovation funding. This is a fast moving policy area and the Government will provide an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/03/2022 14:28:35 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1536885

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2022
	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: Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Comparison of ONS business enterprise research and development statistics with HMRC research and development tax credit statistics, published in September 2022, demonstrating a revised method of calculating private R&D investment, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the loss of ERDF funding on leveraging private sector investment in every region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	72989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) ongoing efforts to improve the accuracy of its research and development (R&amp;D) investment data. The ONS will publish new total R&amp;D investment numbers up to 2020, plus private R&amp;D investment up to 2021, on 17 November 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) as a successor to EU structural funds (European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund). Decisions on how it will be used will be taken locally. Funding for UKSPF will ramp up to £1.5 billion per year by March 2025. This upholds the Government’s commitment to match EU structural fund receipts.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/11/2022 17:23:03 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1544663

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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: Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Office for National Statistics dataset entitled Business enterprise research and development, UK, published on 22 November 2022, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of that dataset’s aggregation of regions into single figures on the ability of his Department to evaluate the impact of (a) local and (b) regional research and development investment; and if he will take steps to ensure the ONS provides more detailed data.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	93537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is an independent body, and this update is part of a wider programme of work to improve economic statistics and data capture. The ONS published estimates of country and regional breakdown of expenditure on R&amp;D in the UK by sector of performance for 2018, 2019 and 2020 in table 4 of their Gross Expenditure on R&amp;D release on 22 November 2022, with business enterprise R&amp;D shown separately and with English regions aggregated into three groups.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is in contact with the ONS and they intend to publish further detailed data on regional spend in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/11/2022 13:53:05 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1545831

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2022
	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: Investment
	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 25 November 2022 to Question 93537 on Research: Investment, at what geographic level the further detailed data on regional spend will be aggregated; when he plans to publish this data; and what steps he is taking to assess the progress of policies to level up science investment.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	97527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is an independent body. I will encourage them to publish in due course as much regional detail on where R&amp;D expenditure is taking place as they can, at least for the nine English regions as well as for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/12/2022 17:13:21 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1547587

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2022
	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: Investment
	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 1 December 2022 to Question 97527 on Research: Investment, what assessment he has made of the impact of not having regional data on funding for science.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	101725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The ONS November 2022 R&amp;D expenditure data release allows comparison of overall R&amp;D expenditure in London, the South East and the East of England with that in other parts of England and the UK, which helps track progress. Furthermore, ONS and BEIS are working towards more granular regional data on R&amp;D in 2023, such as regional breakdowns of government R&amp;D funding.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 07/12/2022 17:04:31 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1551799

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	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: Investment
	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 Answer of 7 December to Question101725 on Research: Investment, when the ONS and his Department will (a) complete and (b) release granular regional data on R&D in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	110681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>Precise timings and details for release are a matter for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is an independent body. On 21 September 2022 they said “To aid the delivery of the levelling up agenda, we are also developing statistics showing R&amp;D at a regional level. Producing complex figures at a regional basis can be challenging, so we are exploring innovative techniques to map where R&amp;D is taking place, not simply where expenditure has been allocated. This work will culminate in the publishing of regional Government and business R&amp;D expenditure statistics in early 2023.”</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 21/12/2022 13:09:37 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah