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date	16/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) obligations and (b) timescales are in place to require organisations in receipt of Research and Development tax breaks to publish the outcome of their research in public.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	91082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>R&amp;D tax credits are a key part of the Government’s support for innovative business investment and provided £4.4 billion to businesses across the UK in 2016-17. The Government does not place an obligation on organisations to publish any intellectual property which arises from their research.</p><p> </p><p>Patents are publicly available and so any R&amp;D that leads to a patent will be made public. It would be impractical to require greater disclosure than this; for example, it could potentially reveal trade secrets and it would also impose a significant administrative burden, both factors that would be likely to prevent companies from claiming.</p><p> </p><p>In some circumstances the same work can attract research and development relief for more than one company, as is envisaged in paragraph eleven of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Guidelines regulations. These regulations specify which activities are to be treated as being research and development.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 91083 91084 question first answered 21/09/2020 13:23:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1235147

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merit of requiring organisations in receipt of Research and Development tax breaks to publish the outcome of their research in public after a set period of time.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	91083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>R&amp;D tax credits are a key part of the Government’s support for innovative business investment and provided £4.4 billion to businesses across the UK in 2016-17. The Government does not place an obligation on organisations to publish any intellectual property which arises from their research.</p><p> </p><p>Patents are publicly available and so any R&amp;D that leads to a patent will be made public. It would be impractical to require greater disclosure than this; for example, it could potentially reveal trade secrets and it would also impose a significant administrative burden, both factors that would be likely to prevent companies from claiming.</p><p> </p><p>In some circumstances the same work can attract research and development relief for more than one company, as is envisaged in paragraph eleven of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Guidelines regulations. These regulations specify which activities are to be treated as being research and development.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 91082 91084 question first answered 21/09/2020 13:23:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1235149

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has in place to prevent organisations that benefit from research and development tax breaks from duplicating (a) their own and (b) other organisations’ research.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	91084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>R&amp;D tax credits are a key part of the Government’s support for innovative business investment and provided £4.4 billion to businesses across the UK in 2016-17. The Government does not place an obligation on organisations to publish any intellectual property which arises from their research.</p><p> </p><p>Patents are publicly available and so any R&amp;D that leads to a patent will be made public. It would be impractical to require greater disclosure than this; for example, it could potentially reveal trade secrets and it would also impose a significant administrative burden, both factors that would be likely to prevent companies from claiming.</p><p> </p><p>In some circumstances the same work can attract research and development relief for more than one company, as is envisaged in paragraph eleven of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Guidelines regulations. These regulations specify which activities are to be treated as being research and development.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 91082 91083 question first answered 21/09/2020 13:23:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady