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date	16/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he plans to allocate to spending on defence R&D in each year to 2030.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	26643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>As part of this Spending Review Period (financial years 2021-22 to 2024-25) the department established a ringfence of £6.6 billion for R&amp;D across the four years. In the first three years of this Spending Review period the department exceeded its targets and spent over £6 billion. Whilst forecasts for R&amp;D spend for this financial year are subject to change, we ultimately expect to comfortably exceed the £6.6 billion ringfenced figure by the end of this financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, as part of the announcement to uplift defence spending to 2.5% GDP by 2030, we are making a new commitment to ring-fence at least 5% of the defence budget for research and development from 2025-26 onwards, with an increased focus on dual use technologies or where there can be significant spillover effects from military to civil R&amp;D.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 21/05/2024 15:43:27 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1717826

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date	14/05/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Defence: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the press notice entitled PM announces turning point in European security as UK set to increase defence spending to 2.5% by 2030, published on 23 April 2024, whether the 5% of the defence budget to be committed to research and development will be counted as science spend; and which Department will be responsible for that expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	26155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is delivering a record £20 billion public investment in R&amp;D this year, which will increase to £22 billion by the end of the next Parliament. £1.6 billion of this £2 billion increase will be allocated to higher defence R&amp;D by 2028-29. The Ministry of Defence will be responsible for this expenditure and further details will be confirmed at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 17/05/2024 11:41:22 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah