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date	25/01/2017
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	Aerospace Industry
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 the Government is taking to build on the UK's strengths in aerospace innovation and manufacturing before and after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	61583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has allocated £1.95bn to 2026 to co-fund aerospace related R&amp;D activities: 160 technology projects worth £1.3 billion are currently under way, spanning wings, engines, aero structures and advanced systems. This involves 195 different companies and organisations, including over 100 SMEs. In addition the Government is also helping the sector develop its supply chain by investing £80m in the Sharing in Growth supply chain performance improvement programme; the lead 43 companies have already won in excess of £1.4 billion of contracts as a result of this work. The Government also supports the National Aerospace Technology Exploitation programme to help SMEs innovate, develop and market technology.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2017 16:42:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

678768

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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	Aerospace Industry
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 contribution of the aerospace industry to economic growth in the (a) South West and (b) UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	61579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The aerospace sector has an annual turnover of around £30 billion, supporting 113,000 direct, high-skilled jobs across the UK, 22,400 of them in the South West. Average salary levels, at £38,600, are over 35% higher than the national average. Between 2009 and 2015, productivity growth has been six times more than the whole economy.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2017 15:40:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

678769

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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	Aerospace Industry
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 the Government is taking to ensure that the aerospace sector remains globally competitive after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	61580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The UK will continue its longstanding support for the aerospace sector, including co-funding £1.95bn to 2026 for research and development activities, and a number of other measures to support the UK supply chain.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2017 16:41:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire