Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total government spend in (1) 2018, and (2) 2019, on research and development.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for National Statistics publishes annual data on research and development expenditure by the UK government. Their latest data up to 2020, released in April 2022, is available on the ONS website.
Worksheet 3 of that publication gives total figures of £12,765 million in 2018, £13,542 million in 2019 and £15,266 million in 2020. These figures include indicative UK contributions to EU R&D expenditure but exclude expenditure on knowledge transfer.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the annual budget for UK Research and Innovation.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
UKRI’s allocations were published on 30th May 2022. This details UKRI’s budget for the for the financial years 2022-2023 to 2024-2025, as set out below:
UKRI Allocation Plans 2022-2023 to 2024-2025 (£m)
2022-23 | 2022-24 | 2024-25 | Total over SR21 (2022-2023 to 2024-2025 |
7,904 | 8,373 | 8,874 | 25,151 |
At the 2022 Autumn Statement, my Rt Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer reaffirmed the R&D budget for the 2021 Spending Review period, including a recommitment to increasing public expenditure on R&D to £20 billion per annum by 2024/2025.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government who chairs the newly constituted Advanced Research and Invention Agency; and what is the annual payment made to them.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Dr Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford MBE took up post as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s (ARIA) founding Chief Executive Officer and Chair, respectively, on 15 August 2022. The rest of ARIA’s senior leadership team are now being appointed. As with other arm’s length bodies, Board remuneration information will be published in the Agency’s annual reports and accounts.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government who sits on the Advanced Research and Innovation Agency; and what monies they receive.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Dr Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford MBE took up post as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s (ARIA) founding Chief Executive Officer and Chair, respectively, on 15 August 2022. The rest of ARIA’s senior leadership team are now being appointed. As with other arm’s length bodies, Board remuneration information will be published in the Agency’s annual reports and accounts.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government what amount was provided in research and development grants to (1) the steel industry, (2) the ship building industry, (3) the aerospace industry, and (4) the building and construction industries, in (a) 2018, and (b) 2019.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer the noble Lord to the answer I gave him on 2nd November 2022 to Question HL2736. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not hold the requested information. Government innovation funding is generally not allocated on a sector-by-sector basis but is instead targeted towards specific research questions. Many research, development and innovation programmes support multiple sectors. For example, the Government invested £22.25m in 2018/19 and £28.34m in 2019/20 through the Transforming Construction Challenge (TCC), which supported energy, digital and manufacturing innovators to work with the construction sector.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) enhance, and (2) encourage, training in the care sector.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Through Skills for Care, we are providing a range of resources for social care providers to attract, train and retain staff. This includes the Workforce Development Fund, which enables employers to bid for financial support towards the training and development of staff. New learning opportunities, training and online resources to build digital skills in the care sector, are also being provided.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much was given in research grants to the (1) steel industry, (2) aerospace industry, and (3) chemical industry, in (a) 2018, and (b) 2021.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not hold the requested information. Government innovation funding is generally not allocated on a sector-by-sector basis, but is instead targeted towards specific research questions. Many research, development and innovation programmes support multiple sectors, including UK Research and Innovations’s Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, which includes support for R&D initiatives within the chemicals and metals manufacturing sectors. The Government also invested £685 million of funding the over three years to support green aerospace technology through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their policy towards research grants in the manufacturing industry.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are the largest public funder of research. UKRI supports businesses, including in the manufacturing sector, to innovate and grow. For example, through the Made Smarter Innovation Challenge which helps manufacturers capitalise on new digital technologies.
The Catapult Network, which receives some funding from BEIS through Innovate UK, supports businesses across multiple sectors in research and innovation. Over half of the £1.2 billion funding provided to the Catapult Network for the current 5-year period ending in March 2023 is allocated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult which supports industry to develop new manufacturing technologies.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of female apprenticeships in the manufacturing industry.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The proportion of females starting apprenticeships in Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies has risen from 7.3% in the 2017/18 academic year to 10.6% in the 2020/21 academic year.
The department wants to see even more women accessing traditionally male-dominated fields such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and those that offer the highest wage returns. 15% of starts in STEM apprenticeships were by women in the 2020/21 academic year, up from 11% in 2019/20 and 10% in 2018/19.
Our Apprenticeships Diversity Champions Network is championing gender representation amongst employers in industries where improvement is needed, including engineering and manufacturing. The network published a report during National Apprenticeship Week 2022 sharing best practice and hints and tips for employers to improve diversity in apprenticeships. In addition, our Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge (ASK) Programme is continuing to provide free resources to promote STEM apprenticeships to girls in schools.
We are working with the Apprenticeships in Manufacturing (AiM) group, which includes industry partners such as Make UK and Enginuity, to grow the number of high-quality apprenticeships in the manufacturing sector.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) male, and (2) female, graduate apprenticeships were taken up in (a) 2018, and (b) 2021.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Apprenticeships are available from level 2, equivalent to GCSE level, through to level 6, equivalent to a bachelor’s degree, and level 7, equivalent to a master’s degree. The attached file contains male/female breakdowns by apprenticeship level for apprenticeship starts from the 2017/18 to 2020/21 academic years.
Apprenticeship achievements from 2017/18 to 2020/21 are shown in the table below:
Academic Year | Achievements |
2017/18 | 276,160 |
2018/19 | 185,150 |
2019/20 | 146,900 |
2020/21 | 156,530 |
Total achievements are the count of apprenticeships achieved at any point during the stated academic period. Learners achieving more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once.
Further information on apprenticeships starts and achievements can be found in the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.