Battery Technology (Correction to Written Answer)

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Tuesday 13th July 2010 Written Statements

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Norman Baker)]

I regret to inform the House that there was an inaccuracy in the answer I gave to parliamentary question 5072 on 5 July, Official Report, column 9W, about the research that had been undertaken on battery technology. The £3 million competition that was launched on the 24 June and to which I referred to in my answer, was in fact launched by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It was not launched by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills itself.