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542101

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2016
	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	ARM: Cambridge
	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 take steps to ensure that ARM's headquarters remain in Cambridge.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	43958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>SoftBank has made a legally-binding undertaking to maintain ARM’s headquarters in Cambridge. The undertaking is enforceable by the Takeover Panel for five years.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/09/2016 09:58:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

577492

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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	COST Programme
	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 discuss with Cabinet colleagues prioritising the UK's continuing membership of and participation in the COST network in negotiations to leave the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>UK membership of COST is independent from European Union membership and does not form part of the negotiations to leave the EU. COST is an intergovernmental framework with 36 member countries, including Iceland, Turkey and other countries that are not European Union member states. Our future membership of COST will be decided on the basis of its continuing value to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 14:00:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

577670

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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	Satellites
	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 companies to capitalise on markets that make use of satellite data, such as maritime surveillance and satellite broadband.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The industry-led Space Innovation and Growth Strategy set out that space services and applications are likely to provide the majority of future growth in the sector. Maritime surveillance and satellite broadband were highlighted in this strategy as priority growth opportunities, and the UK Space Agency has been working with industry to remove barriers to growth and develop specific opportunities in these areas.</p><p>In 2013, Innovate UK established the Satellite Applications Catapult specifically to help UK industry to develop applications and services based on space data and grasp these new opportunities. The UK Space Agency’s Space for Smarter Government Programme works across Government to promote the intelligent use of space data. An outcome from that programme is the use of satellite broadband to support the NHS’s mobile breast-cancer screening services.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 13:55:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

577678

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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	Spaceflight
	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 he plans for the proposed UK spaceport to have vertical launch capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is examining the case for commercial spaceflight and launching small satellites from both runway-based spaceports and a vertical launch spaceport. The UK Space Agency is working with the Department for Transport to draft legislation that will enable both horizontal, sub-orbital and vertical launch spaceflight operations from the UK as part of the Modern Transport Bill.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 13:55:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

577680

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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	Space Technology
	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 investment in British space and satellite companies.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s intent to grow the UK’s Space sector was set out most recently in our National Space Policy, which we published in 2015. The UK Space Agency deploys a broad range of mechanisms, working with other delivery partners such as Innovate UK, Local Economic Partnerships, the European Space Agency and the Satellite Applications Catapult, to encourage investment in British Space companies. These measures include working closely with industry to identify and remove regulatory barriers to growth, investing in innovative technology needed to enter new space markets and building the national facilities essential to develop the UK’s future space products. We have also set up the structures needed to drive investment and growth, for example, the UK Space Gateway at Harwell in Oxfordshire. The UK Space Agency also works closely with the Department for International Trade to secure overseas inward investment and develop export opportunities for the space industry.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 13:58:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

578747

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	Motor Vehicles: Telecommunications
	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 research his Department is undertaking on standards for short-range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles is currently engaged in the second phase of a joint project with the British Standards Institute and the Transport Systems Catapult to map current standards, identify gaps, and determine how best to utilise standards in support of UK industry. This work encompasses vehicle connectivity such as short-range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and will report early next year.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/09/2016 10:48:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

578771

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	Space Technology
	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 pursue an expanded national space programme alongside the UK's contribution to the European Space Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK obtains excellent value from its investment as a member of the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing UK scientists to engage in world-class science in earth observation, space science, exploration, robotics and microgravity research, and providing significant commercial opportunities for UK industry.</p><p>The UK’s investment in ESA enables our involvement in research programmes like the Rosetta-Philae mission (the first ever landing on a comet) and the GAIA mission (mapping the galaxy in an unprecedented level of detail.</p><p>In addition to our investments through ESA, the UK also funds a National Programme, whose budget has grown from around £20m p.a. when the Agency was established on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2011, to £88m p.a..</p><p>The Government protected funding for space in cash terms in the recent spending review, and both our investment in ESA, and our National Space Programme, support the development of the UK space sector, which is growing at a much faster rate than the economy as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2016 13:54:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

577446

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	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, what comparative assessment he has made of the UK's investment in research and innovation as a proportion of gross domestic product to that of (a) EU member states, (b) non-EU countries with associated status, (c) the US and (d) China.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2016 answer text <p>Data on total R&amp;D expenditure in other countries are published on the OECD website. Gross investment in R&amp;D in the UK was 1.67% of GDP in 2014. This compares to the EU average of 1.95%, the OECD average of 2.38%, 2.74% in the United States (in 2013) and 2.05% in China.</p><p>The 2015 data for UK expenditure on R&amp;D will be published by the Office for National Statistics in March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/09/2016 13:32:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

582124

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2016
	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	Reaction Engines: 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, for what reason the Government's £60 million investment in Reaction Engines to help support the development of SABRE, as announced on 16 July 2013, has been delayed.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	46025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2016 answer text <p>The announcement in July 2013 was an in principle decision to fund, subject to the development of a suitable business case. The reason the funding was not disbursed sooner was because Reaction Engines had not produced a business case that met the Government’s requirements.</p><p>The funding for SABRE was confirmed to Reaction Engines as a grant in December 2015, and milestone payments began in April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/09/2016 13:32:56 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

582138

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2016
	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	ICT: Skilled Workers
	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 increase the number of people in the UK with high-level specialist skills in data science.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	45990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need to increase the number of people with high-level skills in data science for the benefit of the UK, and is taking a range of measures to boost the supply of people with these skills.</p><p>The Alan Turing Institute is a £67 million joint venture between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and five leading UK Universities (Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick). It is the UK’s national institute for data science, and training the next generation of researchers is a key part of its mission.</p><p>Other institutes supported by the Research Councils include the Hartree Centre (a centre of excellence in High Performance Computing), the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, and the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, which are all helping researchers to develop their skills to make better use of data.</p><p>The Research Councils are taking other steps to increase the supply of researchers with data skills, for example all Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-funded doctoral students are required to be trained in informatics, data analysis and computational methods as a core part of their training. They support numerous Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) involved in data analysis, including the University of Edinburgh’s Data Science CDT, and the Big Data and Cloud Computing CDT at the University of Newcastle. And the £19.5 million Q-Step programme is designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/09/2016 13:33:40 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner