Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Crown Commercial Service holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Crown Commercial Service holds no intellectual property licences under the specified categories.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Department for Business and Trade holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The requested information is not readily available in respect of grants, pre-procurement proofs of concept or contracts. Investigation work in order to collect relevant information would incur a disproportionate cost.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Home Office holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be provided for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.

Our standard terms and conditions have clauses setting out ownership, rights and permitted use of intellectual property (IP) assets created in the course of suppliers’ work for DEFRA. We do not keep a central register of IP assets and rights; these are the responsibility of contract owners and contract managers across DEFRA group.

To answer the noble Lady's question, we would have to access all individual contracts to ascertain what IP licensing terms have been put in place. This would mean that this request is manifestly unreasonable on the grounds of cost and time.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Ministry of Justice holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences His Majesty's Revenue and Customs holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

HMRC does hold the information in the form requested, though could only be provided at disproportionate cost as HMRC has 566 contracts in 2024-25, and each contract has different IP licensee conditions.

After further analysis, HMRC has not identified any patents that it holds that generate income for His Majesty’s Government. Any patents or licenses held, that were created by HMRC contracting for services to support the efficient collection of taxes and discharge its customs duties, are used solely for these purposes.

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

DSIT Commercial do not hold this information but all contracts awarded by DSIT are published on contracts finder and can be accessed at GOV.UK and find a tender service.

DSIT Grants are mostly awarded the standard grant funding agreement recommended by Cabinet Office.

To provide the detail requested would incur disproportionate costs to the department.

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This inquiry looks into the growth of private markets in the UK following reforms introduced after 2008. In particular, the inquiry will examine whether the regulatory capital and liquidity reforms introduced after 2008 have reduced banks’ ability or willingness to lend, pushing risk away from the banking sector and towards private markets. It will also look into how much visibility the Bank of England has on the size of these private markets, their interconnections with the banking sector, and any potential spillover risks.