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1058794

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Finance
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’s commitment to increase public investment in research and development by £7 billion by 2021-22 is dependent on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government committed at Budget 2017 to increase public investment in Research &amp; Development by £7 billion by 2021-22. This is not dependent on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/02/2019 17:43:43 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059021

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the allocation of funding for universal credit for the 2019-2020 financial year will reflect the fact that it will be a fifty-three week year.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>No year contains 53 weeks. Departmental expenditure is set in advance to reflect anticipated delivery over the year.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/02/2019 15:23:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059025

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to make an economic assessment of the policy options considered by UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219419 219420 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059034

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
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 role his Department will play in the review being conducted by UK Research and Innovation on Open Access policy; and whether his Department will be represented on the Open Access Review Steering Group.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219420 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059050

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
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 the potential merits of expanding Open Access research.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219419 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059051

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
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 his Department has made of the potential merits of Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences publishing.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219419 219420 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059052

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
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 UK Research and Innovation has plans to make an assessment of the effect of its review into Open Access policy on (a) UK researchers and (b) overseas researchers seeking to work in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy, including the ambition to raise total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p>The UK is among the world’s top research nations, with a world-leading research and innovation base for attracting and retaining researchers. As set out in the UKRI Strategic Prospectus, “talent” and “open research” are two key foundations for excellent research and innovation. Throughout the Open Access Review UKRI will be engaging and consulting with the sector and a range of relevant stakeholders, including researchers, to understand the effects of its Open Access policy. Transitioning towards Open Access is the direction of travel taken by all leading research nations, and UKRI will be taking an evidence-based approach, and will consider the international context in its Review to help ensure that the UK remains a top destination for global researchers.</p><p>The UK’s substantial commitment to Open Access over the past years has resulted in it being at the forefront of the global movement to Open Access. This has benefited the UK, for example through increased levels of international collaboration as set out in the “Ascent of Open Access” report from Digital Science (available at <a href="https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-ascent-of-open-access-report/" target="_blank">https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-ascent-of-open-access-report/</a>). International collaboration is essential to ensure that the UK maintains its world leading position in research and innovation, and to bring benefit to the society and economy of the UK. Other advantages of Open Access, such as increased citation, are evidenced in the STM Report “An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing” (available at <a href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf</a>).</p><p>All leading research nations, including the US and China, have signalled their intent to move towards Open Access (Nature, December 2018 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5</a>). The international open access collaboration, Plan S, is led by Science Europe but includes international engagement beyond Europe.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219423 question first answered 19/02/2019 14:03:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059054

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Publishing
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 the potential risk to the UK of progressing Open Access in advance of other international research in (a) the US and (b) China.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy, including the ambition to raise total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p>The UK is among the world’s top research nations, with a world-leading research and innovation base for attracting and retaining researchers. As set out in the UKRI Strategic Prospectus, “talent” and “open research” are two key foundations for excellent research and innovation. Throughout the Open Access Review UKRI will be engaging and consulting with the sector and a range of relevant stakeholders, including researchers, to understand the effects of its Open Access policy. Transitioning towards Open Access is the direction of travel taken by all leading research nations, and UKRI will be taking an evidence-based approach, and will consider the international context in its Review to help ensure that the UK remains a top destination for global researchers.</p><p>The UK’s substantial commitment to Open Access over the past years has resulted in it being at the forefront of the global movement to Open Access. This has benefited the UK, for example through increased levels of international collaboration as set out in the “Ascent of Open Access” report from Digital Science (available at <a href="https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-ascent-of-open-access-report/" target="_blank">https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-ascent-of-open-access-report/</a>). International collaboration is essential to ensure that the UK maintains its world leading position in research and innovation, and to bring benefit to the society and economy of the UK. Other advantages of Open Access, such as increased citation, are evidenced in the STM Report “An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing” (available at <a href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf</a>).</p><p>All leading research nations, including the US and China, have signalled their intent to move towards Open Access (Nature, December 2018 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5</a>). The international open access collaboration, Plan S, is led by Science Europe but includes international engagement beyond Europe.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219422 question first answered 19/02/2019 14:03:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah