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1139950

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July to Question 273388 and with reference to the 2015 report of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills entitled Research and development: relationship between public and private investment, whether his Department has conducted further analysis since the publication of that report on the finding that an extra £1 of public funding would give rise to an increase in private funding of between £1.13 and £1.60.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	278489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The 2015 report was commissioned and published by BEIS, and considered during the 2015 Spending Review, together with other evidence and analysis. It provides the most recent published assessment of leverage rates between public and private sector R&amp;D.</p><p>The Department is committed to continuously improving and developing a robust R&amp;D evidence base across the Department and its partner organisations, such as UKRI.</p><p> </p><p>New research on R&amp;D that meets the professional standards for analysis in Government is published on Gov.UK. Best practices in quality assurance are essential to ensure that partners and the public can have trust in Government analysis.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/07/2019 15:26:20 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1139951

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Science: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2019 to Question 273388, what (a) discussions he has had with and (b) advice he has received from UK Research and Innovation on the quantitative relationship between (i) public and (ii) private sector investment in science.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	278490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation leads on engagement with industry in developing the challenges under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) and advises BEIS on projects. We are expecting to meet more than 1:1 match between industry and government funding for Wave 3 of the ISCF. Recently, we announced £220 million allocated from UK Research Partnership Investment Fund, which will bring in a further £500 million in private R&amp;D funding; and £153 million of government funding on quantum technologies, with an additional £205 million expected to be pledged by industry.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/07/2019 15:04:11 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1139700

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Avara Avlon Pharma Services: Insolvency
	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 discussions he has had with Astrazeneca and Avara Avlon about the (a) three year guarantee on enhanced redundancy payments and terms for staff agreed as part of the sale of the company for £1 in December 2016 and the (b) collapse of Avara Avalon.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	278449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has had no discussions with Avara. This is a commercial matter which BEIS have been monitoring for some time, however we have not sought to intervene while staff consultation and the administration process are underway.</p><p> </p><p>AstraZeneca announced on Wednesday that they have set aside funding of up to £12m, to be administered independently, to make sure their former employees at the Avlon site receive full severance should the ongoing administration of the site not generate enough funds to cover redundancy costs.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/07/2019 16:50:37 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1139877

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Companies: Registration
	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 many additional staff his Department plans to recruit to Companies House to monitor the verification process outlined in his Department's consultation on corporate transparency and register reform published on 5 May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
	uin	278461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>This consultation is still open. I am grateful for the hon. Member’s interest and encourage him to submit his views before it closes on 5 August.</p><p> </p><p>After the consultation has closed and following analysis by the Department of the responses, the Government will consider what measures it proposes to implement or explore further.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 278463 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:52:12 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1139826

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Novartis: Great Grimsby
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which ministers he has appointed to the taskforce to find a new buyer for the Novartis site in Great Grimsby.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
	uin	278551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department of International Trade are closely monitoring the situation. We are working with the company, the local authority and Local Enterprise Partnerships to support their efforts in helping to preserve highly skilled jobs in the area and to help find a buyer for the site.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 22/07/2019 15:31:20 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

1139872

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	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	Global Navigation Satellite Systems
	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 estimate he has made of the cost of a UK global navigation satellite system.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	278448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 6 December 2018 by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Richard Harrington MP) to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-12-03/198212/" target="_blank">198212</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/07/2019 15:03:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith