Innovate UK intends to publish its Strategy for 2016-20 in the spring. This will be followed by the publication of Innovate UK\u2019s Delivery Plan for 2016-17. This timetable takes account of the timing of the recent Spending Review.<\/p>
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Innovate UK consults widely to prioritise technology areas for investment and carefully considers issues such as global market opportunity and UK research excellence and business capability.<\/p>
Innovate UK\u2019s current priority areas are agriculture and food, built environment, digital economy, emerging technologies, enabling technologies, energy, health and care, high value manufacturing, resource efficiency, space applications, transport and urban living. Following the Government\u2019s Spending Review, Innovate UK is considering its strategy for business-led innovation support across the UK\u2019s technology areas for the next Spending Review period, which will be presented to Ministers in spring 2016.<\/p>
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Innovate UK has established a network of 10 Catapult Centres covering a broad range of markets and technologies and Government investment will be around £557 million by 2015/16 but the future allocation between the individual catapults has not yet been finalised\u201d. The Catapults are:<\/p>
High Value Manufacturing Catapult \u2013 seven individual centres working together to bring their expertise in different and complementary areas of high value manufacturing to provide an integrated capability and embraces all forms of manufacture using metals and composites, in addition to process manufacturing technologies and bio-processing.<\/p>
Cell Therapy Catapult \u2013 working to grow a viable and sustainable cell therapy industry in the UK.<\/p>
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult \u2013 focused on development of commercially viable technologies applicable to offshore wind, wave and tidal power.<\/p>
Satellite Applications Catapult \u2013 helping UK businesses to develop new satellite-based products and services.<\/p>
Digital Catapult \u2013 working to position UK business to lead the introduction of radically new applications and experiences across the increasing breadth of internet services.<\/p>
Future Cities Catapult \u2013 helping to make cities to become smarter and more forward thinking.<\/p>
Transport Systems Catapult \u2013 supporting UK industry in exploiting the massive global market for new products and services that will drive the integration of transport and its systems and help UK businesses to develop effective and sustainable solutions to transport needs for both freight and people.<\/p>
Energy Systems Catapult \u2013 working to deliver economic value to Britain by making the transformation of the UK\u2019s energy systems sector attractive to companies that are developing and growing new technology-based products and services by creating a critical mass of world class independent engineering and social science expertise in energy systems<\/p>
Precision Medicine Catapult \u2013 working to simplify and accelerate precision medicine product development and implementation, building the necessary partnerships between different therapeutic, diagnostic and informatics players in the sector, supporting existing and new companies and attracting inward investment by global life science companies<\/p>
Medicines Technologies Catapult \u2013 still being established, but will work on the development of new technologies that better predict the response of humans, animals and environment to chemicals (for example prescription drugs, pesticides and cosmetics).<\/p>
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This Government is committed to the Catapult network and has prioritised core funding support for the network in the recent Spending Review. It has already expanded the network by announcing, in July, that a Medicines Technologies Catapult would be established and developed at Alderley Park in Cheshire.<\/p>
Innovate UK will be publishing its revised Strategy for 2016-20 in the spring and this will set out plans for evaluation of the Catapult network.<\/p>
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The number of offender learners participating in English courses for all academic years where data are available is shown in Table 1. A separate breakdown identifying learners who participated on an English course after being assessed as having a literacy need is not available.<\/p>
Table 1: Offender Learner Participation in English (2010/11 and 2013/14)<\/p>
2010/11<\/p><\/td> | 2011/12<\/p><\/td> | 2012/13<\/p><\/td> | 2013/14<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
23,980<\/p><\/td> | 25,220<\/p><\/td> | 22,620<\/p><\/td> | 26,080<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Notes<\/p> 1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.<\/p> Mandatory English and maths assessments for newly-received prisoners (except individuals who have been assessed recently, and those who already have maths and English at Level 2) were introduced from academic year 2014/15. The outcomes for the English education assessments in 2014/15 are published online at the FE Data Library (link below) and attached.<\/p> |