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	date	17/11/2014
	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	Space Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if the Government will support the creation of a UK space agency.
	tabling member constituency	Beckenham
	tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
	uin	214589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK Space Agency was created in April 2011 as one of the recommendations of the 2010 Space Innovation and Growth Strategy. The Agency's positive impact on the space sector's growth was welcomed by the House of Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 24/11/2014 11:07:15 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart

155399

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	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: Research
	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 has been spent on science and research and development through local enterprise partnerships in each region of England; and how such spending compares with equivalent spending in (a) the EU and (b) the G20.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr William Bain
	uin	214301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and their local partners have strategic direction over £20 billion domestic and EU funding between now and 2020/21. Strengthening research, technological development and innovation is a key objective of the European funds, and LEPs can advance growth-oriented science and research projects for investment through the Local Growth Fund. The Government does not at this early stage of these programmes hold data on the amount spent by LEPs on science, research and development, or on international comparators.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally we recently agreed a City Deal with Glasgow and the Clyde Valley that will see UK Government make significant investments in science and innovation. This includes £16 million to support a Stratified Medicine: Imaging Centre of Excellence at the new South Glasgow Hospital site, £1.2 million towards the establishment of MediCity Scotland, and £1.67 million towards a centre for Business Incubation and Development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 24/11/2014 11:08:41 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1610 label Biography information for Mr William Bain