Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of project collaborators in Innovate UK core funding grants awarded to Higher Education Institutions were (a) SMEs and (b) large companies in each sector in each year since 2010.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The table below describes the proportion of Innovate UK projects that have an academic partner with either a large business or SME. As some projects will involve both large businesses and SMEs, the percentages will not add up to 100%. This does not provide an industry sector breakdown as this information is not recorded.
The figures for 2019 to 2020 show funding at the time of the question rather than final year-end figures. These are subject to change as the current financial year has not yet concluded.
| 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 14/15 | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 |
Proportion Large | 46% | 45% | 63% | 50% | 47% | 47% | 36% | 34% | 22% | 29% |
Proportion SME | 80% | 76% | 68% | 86% | 86% | 83% | 89% | 85% | 85% | 79% |
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of stricter border checks for people from EU Member States after the UK leaves the EU on the life sciences industry in the UK.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Science, research and innovation are vital to our country’s prosperity, health and wellbeing. The Government remains committed to ensuring world leading life sciences talent is retained and attracted to the UK. We are working to ensure that our visa arrangements are closely aligned to the sector’s needs.
The Government recently announced that we would remove the numbers cap under the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa, which exists to attract leading scientists and researchers to the United Kingdom. We also intend to expand the range of bodies able to endorse applicants under this route, and my Department is currently working with the Home Office on how best to achieve this. My Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister has also made clear our longer-term commitment to introducing an Australian-style points-based system, which will seek to attract talented individuals from across the globe to work, live in and contribute to the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions (a) she and (b) her officials have had with their counterparts at the Home Department on the effect of border checks for people from EU Member States on the life sciences industry in the UK.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Science, research and innovation are vital to our country’s prosperity, health and wellbeing. The Government remains committed to ensuring world leading life sciences talent is retained and attracted to the UK. We are working to ensure that our visa arrangements are closely aligned to the sector’s needs.
The Government recently announced that we would remove the numbers cap under the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa, which exists to attract leading scientists and researchers to the United Kingdom. We also intend to expand the range of bodies able to endorse applicants under this route, and my Department is currently working with the Home Office on how best to achieve this. My Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister has also made clear our longer-term commitment to introducing an Australian-style points-based system, which will seek to attract talented individuals from across the globe to work, live in and contribute to the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to assess the economic effect of each of the policy options being considered as part of the UK Research and Innovation review into open access policy.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
On the subjects of economic impact, international collaborations and effects on researchers I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central on 14th February 2019 to Question 219418 and on 19th February 2019 to Question 219422.
UKRI are continuing to conduct evidence gathering, analysis and stakeholder engagement as part of their Open Access Review, including with researchers and publishers, and will set out a policy position for consultation in due course. UKRI’s mission is to work in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and Government to create the best environment for research and innovation to flourish and to create social and economic impact. The Open Access Review will continue under these principles, and the issues raised by the hon. Member are all being considered by UKRI as part of the ongoing process.
The Department is working closely with UKRI on Open Access and will continue to do so after the announcement of the outcomes of the review which is expected in Spring 2020.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the forthcoming open access policy on researchers who do not qualify for UK Research and Innovation Open Access funding and support.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
On the subjects of economic impact, international collaborations and effects on researchers I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central on 14th February 2019 to Question 219418 and on 19th February 2019 to Question 219422.
UKRI are continuing to conduct evidence gathering, analysis and stakeholder engagement as part of their Open Access Review, including with researchers and publishers, and will set out a policy position for consultation in due course. UKRI’s mission is to work in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and Government to create the best environment for research and innovation to flourish and to create social and economic impact. The Open Access Review will continue under these principles, and the issues raised by the hon. Member are all being considered by UKRI as part of the ongoing process.
The Department is working closely with UKRI on Open Access and will continue to do so after the announcement of the outcomes of the review which is expected in Spring 2020.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that UK researchers are able to collaborate with international researchers following the implementation of UK Research and Innovation's forthcoming open access policy.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
On the subjects of economic impact, international collaborations and effects on researchers I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central on 14th February 2019 to Question 219418 and on 19th February 2019 to Question 219422.
UKRI are continuing to conduct evidence gathering, analysis and stakeholder engagement as part of their Open Access Review, including with researchers and publishers, and will set out a policy position for consultation in due course. UKRI’s mission is to work in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and Government to create the best environment for research and innovation to flourish and to create social and economic impact. The Open Access Review will continue under these principles, and the issues raised by the hon. Member are all being considered by UKRI as part of the ongoing process.
The Department is working closely with UKRI on Open Access and will continue to do so after the announcement of the outcomes of the review which is expected in Spring 2020.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what roles the Government defines as green collar jobs; and what the criteria are for defining a job as green collar.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The official sources of data for capturing jobs that support clean growth are the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey and the ONS’s Environmental Goods and Services Sector dataset.
This is publicly available information at:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2017; and
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/ukenvironmentalgoodsandservicessectoregssestimates.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green collar jobs in the UK are (a) full-time, (b) part-time, (c) minimum wage, (d) in the public sector and (e) in the private sector.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The official sources of data for capturing jobs that support clean growth are the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey and the ONS’s Environmental Goods and Services Sector dataset. These sources measure employment in terms of ‘full time equivalents’ only.
According to the latest statistics from the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey there are almost 400,000 jobs in low carbon businesses and their supply chains across the country. By placing clean growth at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy, we are determined to maximise the economic opportunities from the transition to clean growth.
We are working closely with the ONS to improve the detail and scope of these datasets.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April to Question 237126 on Innovate UK: Grants, what proportion of Innovate UK grant funding has been awarded to (a) SMEs and (b) large companies since 2004 in each sector.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Since 2004, Innovate UK has allocated funding to the following sectors.
Sector | Large business | SME |
Aerospace | £840,714,248 | £61,394,337 |
Agri-Tech | £10,425,603 | £90,178,915 |
Energy | £140,484,835 | £153,132,910 |
Healthcare | £27,631,824 | £268,619,252 |
Life Science | £3,605,908 | £28,233,769 |
Materials and Manufacturing | £6,653,473 | £37,208,881 |
Space | £6,358,779 | £14,382,838 |
Transport | £229,587,823 | £221,127,202 |
Other sectors | £1,481,329,743 | £1,306,782,393 |
Total | 2,746,792,236 | 2,181,060,497 |
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of Innovate UK grant funding has been awarded to (a) SMEs and (b) large companies since 2004; and what the amount awarded has been by sector over that period.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation) is successfully delivering significant cross-cutting programmes, such as the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and supporting the Industrial Strategy ambition to raise total R&D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027.
Innovate UK’s total funding to businesses since 2004 was £4,927,852,733.
A breakdown is provided in the table below:
Total funding to SMEs* (including non-core) | £2,181,060,497 |
Total funding to Large (including non-core) | £2,746,792,236 |
Non-core funding refers to funding given to Innovate UK by other government departments to deliver specific programmes.
Total funding to SMEs* (excluding non-core) | £1,909,487,601 |
Total funding to Large (excluding non-core) | £1,502,060,647 |
*based on “self-declared” enterprise size
Sector | Grant funding (total) |
Aerospace | £902,108,585 |
Agri-Tech | £100,604,518 |
Energy | £293,617,745 |
Healthcare | £296,251,076 |
Life Science | £31,839,677 |
Materials & Manufacturing | £43,862,354 |
Space | £20,741,617 |
Transport | £450,715,025 |
Other sectors | £2,788,112,136 |