Asked by: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what research and development into new antibiotics or close substitutes United Kingdom Research and Innovation is funding.
Answered by Lord Henley
UK Research and Innovation is currently investing over £150m for research and discovery to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including the development of new antibiotics, through schemes including the UK AMR Cross Council Initiative and the Biomedical Catalyst.
Asked by: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that the productivity gap between the UK and other developed countries is less than previously thought.
Answered by Lord Henley
This analysis is a welcome initiative by the OECD to improve the international comparability of productivity statistics. It was initiated in response to a request from the ONS to examine how different countries go about measuring total hours worked (which are required to calculate output per hour worked).
When calculating labour productivity there is a trade-off between using the best available data sourced from different countries’ national accounts, or data compiled on the most consistent basis. The OECD research finds that while for many countries this choice makes a minor difference, for the UK it has a larger effect and improves our performance relative to other countries.
The ONS is examining how best to incorporate these findings into their international comparisons of labour productivity and plans to publish an article on this in January 2019; including more detailed breakdowns of how the UK compares with other developed countries on a more consistent basis.
Asked by: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the annual growth rates of labour productivity in each year since 2000; and what rates they forecast for each year to 2022.
Answered by Lord Henley
Growth in labour productivity, 2000 – 2022
Year (f – forecast) | Output per hour worked, % change on previous year, seasonally adjusted |
2000 | 3.2 |
2001 | 1.5 |
2002 | 2.4 |
2003 | 2.9 |
2004 | 1.2 |
2005 | 2.0 |
2006 | 1.8 |
2007 | 1.5 |
2008 | -0.6 |
2009 | -1.5 |
2010 | 1.3 |
2011 | 1.1 |
2012 | -0.7 |
2013 | -0.4 |
2014 | 0.6 |
2015 | 1.0 |
2016 | 0.5 |
2017 | 0.8 |
2018f | 0.8 |
2019f | 0.8 |
2020f | 0.9 |
2021f | 1.0 |
2022f | 1.1 |
Asked by: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what sector deals have been agreed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under their Industrial Strategy; and how much funding they have allocated to each deal.
Answered by Lord Henley
Nine sector deals have been agreed so far. These are with the nuclear, creative industries, construction, AI, automotive, rail, aerospace sectors, and the life sciences sector has published two deals.
Sector deals are negotiated partnerships between government and Industry in key sectors of the economy to unblock barriers to productivity in specific areas. There is no new funding available, and they do not allocate funding to sectors. Some of the nine Deals agreed to date have involve supporting sector-led proposals with existing sources of Government funding.