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date	15/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing the full or partial value of the free childcare hours entitlement to be paid to informal childcare providers such as grandparents.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Miriam Cates
uin	166399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting the early years sector and, at Spring Budget, announced an extra £4.4 billion of investment by 27-28 for the free hours offers in England. Through this package, the government will be more than doubling its spend on free childcare hours.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are required by legislation to deliver free early education entitlements places through providers registered on the Ofsted Early Years Register. This can include nurseries, childminders (including those registered with a childminder agency) and schools which take children aged two and over and which are therefore exempt from registration with Ofsted as early years providers.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises that relatives do an incredibly important job in a child’s upbringing and can also help families meet their childcare needs. However, to ensure quality early education, free childcare entitlements cannot be used to pay family members to look after children.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/03/2023 09:45:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4865 label Biography information for Miriam Cates

1301436

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date	10/03/2021
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: Employment
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 geographical spread of research and development spending by (a) region and (b) local authority of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	166399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes a country and region breakdown of R&amp;D spending in table 6 of the annual release on UK gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD). The aggregate figures for 2018 were:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Current prices</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>United Kingdom</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>37,072</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p><strong>780</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p><strong>2,950</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p><strong>1,641</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>2,209</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>3,285</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p><strong>6,598</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p><strong>5,886</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p><strong>7,029</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p><strong>2,483</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>32,862</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>786</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,706</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>715</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The ONS does not publish a breakdown of R&amp;D spending by local authority area.</p><p>HM Revenue and Customs publish a breakdown of corporate R&amp;D tax credit claims by county and unitary authority area at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878879/200408-_R_D_Supplementary_final_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878879/200408-_R_D_Supplementary_final_tables.xlsx</a>, though those numbers are distorted by headquarters reporting effects, since the local and regional allocation is based on the postcode of the company's registered address, which might not correspond to where the R&amp;D activity takes place.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 15/03/2021 15:51:48 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves