Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding was allocated to each NUTS 1 region by Innovate UK in each year since 2007-08.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Innovate UK funds businesses of all sizes so that they can create new products and processes to drive economic growth across the UK. The following are the top-line figures for Innovate UK funding committed by NUTS 1 region since 2007/08 up to and including 2017/18.
The numbers have as their source the transparency data for live projects published on the GOV.UK website.
Region | Total Funding Committed (£) |
East Midlands | 283,419,250 |
East of England | 461,104,972 |
London | 1,101,261,582 |
North East | 449,350,044 |
North West | 207,041,458 |
Northern Ireland | 62,752,435 |
Outside UK | 3,607,262 |
Scotland | 307,480,863 |
South East | 833,743,788 |
South West | 677,023,311 |
Wales | 87,598,867 |
West Midlands | 530,893,361 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 368,127,809 |
Grand Total | 5,373,405,002 |
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Full-Time Equivalent staff are employed by Innovate UK, in each NUTS 1 region.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Section 4.3 of Innovate UK’s 2016/7 Annual Report and Accounts confirms the total number of staff to be 303, with 259 permanent members and 44 interim/agency staff. The majority of the staff are based in Swindon and its surrounding areas.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding for business investment Wave 1 of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund has allocated to each NUTS 1 region.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The following is the combined data for the first wave of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund:
Region | Sum of Grant Offered (£) |
East Midlands | 12,192,543 |
East of England | 38,269,053 |
London | 40,438,683 |
North East | 11,101,170 |
North West | 33,461,471 |
Northern Ireland | 1,125,517 |
Outside UK | 547,626 |
Scotland | 43,629,479 |
South East | 56,769,741 |
South West | 15,714,413 |
Wales | 9,157,616 |
West Midlands | 40,231,384 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 9,494,541 |
Grand Total | 312,133,237 |
These figures are subject to change through contracting. This data was produced using the transparency data for live projects and supplemented with application data cross-referenced to records Innovate UK are currently maintaining.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much money the Higher Education Innovation Fund has allocated to each NUTS 1 region in each year since its creation.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is responsible for allocating Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) to support higher education institutions in England to undertake knowledge exchange with business, charities and others, including research commercialisation. HEIF is allocated on the basis of their effectiveness in research commercialisation and working with business and other users of university knowledge and expertise, without regard to regional or NUTS 1 basis.
Allocations over the period 2011-2018 are set out in the table below.
NUTS Level 1 region | HEIF Allocations (£M) to English HEIs per Academic Year | ||||||
2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | |
East Midlands | 10.65 | 10.65 | 11.49 | 11.49 | 12.67 | 12.87 | 14.99 |
East of England | 13.27 | 14.27 | 14.52 | 14.52 | 16.40 | 17.80 | 20.42 |
London | 36.42 | 37.92 | 38.77 | 38.77 | 37.62 | 37.97 | 44.87 |
North East | 9.26 | 9.76 | 9.87 | 9.87 | 8.04 | 7.43 | 8.60 |
North West | 16.97 | 17.97 | 17.96 | 17.96 | 19.71 | 19.46 | 22.10 |
South East | 21.14 | 22.14 | 22.37 | 22.37 | 22.14 | 21.85 | 25.09 |
South West | 11.86 | 11.86 | 12.44 | 12.44 | 11.50 | 11.61 | 13.67 |
West Midlands | 15.57 | 16.07 | 16.54 | 16.54 | 15.68 | 15.38 | 17.40 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 15.24 | 15.74 | 16.41 | 16.41 | 16.47 | 15.63 | 17.84 |
England total | 150.37 | 156.37 | 160.37 | 160.37 | 160.23 | 160.02 | 185.00 |
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding has been allocated from the Connecting Capability Fund to each NUTS 1 region for each year since the fund was created.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Connecting Capability Fund (CCF) was launched by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in April 2017 with £100m funding over 2017-2021 to support universities across England to collaborate together on the commercialisation of research and in working with business. HEFCE has allocated £15m for 2017-18 to higher education institutes in England on the basis of their effectiveness in research commercialisation and working with business and other users of university knowledge and expertise, without regard to regional or NUTS 1 basis.
Table 1: CCF Allocations for Financial year 2017-18
NUTS Level 1 region | Allocation (£) | Allocation as % of Total |
East Midlands | 1,213,330 | 8.1% |
East of England | 1,640,847 | 10.9% |
London | 3,623,252 | 24.2% |
North East | 713,469 | 4.8% |
North West | 1,792,102 | 11.9% |
South East | 2,035,439 | 13.6% |
South West | 1,094,751 | 7.3% |
West Midlands | 1,454,184 | 9.7% |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 1,432,634 | 9.6% |
England total | 15,000,008 | 100.0% |
HEFCE has allocated so far a further £19.52M over the period 2018-2021 to 4 projects involving collaborations of HEIs selected through open competition. These projects involve 18 HEIs from across a number of English Regions which will share the funding.
Table 2: Projects from Round One.
Round One Projects £M | NUTS Level 1 Region: Lead HEI | NUTS Level 1 Region: Collaborating HEIs |
5.0 | South West (England) | South West (England) and South East (England) |
4.7 | East of England | East of England and South East (England) |
5.0 | North West (England) | Yorkshire and The Humber |
4.8 | South East (England) | West Midlands (England)* |
* Consortium also includes an HEI in Scotland.
HEFCE is currently assessing bids for the remaining £65m of CCF.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 132 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, what the process will be for the Government to take greater account of disparities between productivity and economic opportunity between different places when making future investment decisions.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. We are committed to providing high quality infrastructure to support economic growth and prosperity across all regions of the country, and our approach to major investments will reflect this. While cost-benefit analysis will remain central to our decision-making, we will also make use of broad-based and dynamic assessment techniques that reflect the full potential for infrastructure to support local economies.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff are employed in the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult; where those employees are based and how much funding the Catapult has allocated to each NUTS 1 region.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has 146 full-time equivalent employees.
The table sets out approximate funding that the Catapult has invested in each NUTS region to cover staffing, project costs, capital investment and business overhead costs, such as rent, rates and insurance.
NUTS REGION | FY 2014/15 (£M) | FY 2015/16 (£M) | FY 2016/17 (£M) | FY 2017/18 (£M) | Full-Time Employees |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 2 |
North East | 9.1 | 9.7 | 10.00 | 8.7 | 83 |
South West | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1 |
Scotland | 3.9 | 5.1 | 6.3 | 5.5 | 59 |
Wales | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1 |
Total | 13.0 | 15.1 | 16.6 | 15.0 | 146 |
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Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much loan funding was provided by the British Business Bank by NUTS 1 region in each year since 2013-14.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The British Business Bank provides funds and guarantees to private sector partners, enabling them to finance a greater number of smaller businesses (either through debt or equity).
Additionally the Bank delivers a number of regional funds including Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and anticipates the launch of Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Fund in Spring 2018. These funds include a mixture of debt and equity funding.
The following tables shows figures for debt programmes for each FY since 2013/14:
BBB flow of debt funding by FY* | |||||
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| FY 2013/14 | FY 2014/15 | FY 2015/16 | FY 2016/17 |
| East Midlands | 72,386,366 | 140,250,914 | 308,530,985 | 183,988,271 |
| East of England | 143,190,179 | 55,802,099 | 424,220,179 | 400,741,313 |
| London | 1,038,250,763 | 776,330,176 | 1,038,618,734 | 1,670,112,945 |
| North East | 193,138,738 | 37,732,958 | 43,427,554 | 218,883,429 |
| North West | 201,053,761 | 351,155,990 | 430,621,254 | 326,036,311 |
| South East | 341,467,807 | 609,890,567 | 701,148,582 | 377,032,104 |
| South West | 141,141,660 | 70,948,681 | 180,186,344 | 232,027,294 |
| West Midlands | 146,797,170 | 229,676,477 | 243,970,679 | 347,596,847 |
| Yorkshire and Humber | 450,408,230 | 189,189,923 | 561,138,552 | 319,446,648 |
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| Scotland | 90,299,306 | 55,354,003 | 65,638,590 | 244,079,333 |
| Wales | 25,764,981 | 40,634,299 | 227,020,046 | 83,795,193 |
| Northern Ireland | 8,057,260 | 11,916,650 | 14,704,296 | 15,588,272 |
| Not Available | 1,559,500 | 3,155,090 | 180,514,809 | 36,264,010 |
| Total | 2,853,515,720 | 2,572,037,827 | 4,419,740,604 | 4,455,591,970 |
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STARTUP LOAN CO. flow of lending by FY* | ||||
| FY 2013/14 | FY 2014/15 | FY 2015/16 | FY 2016/17 |
East Midlands | 3.99 | 3.24 | 3.65 | 5.00 |
East of England | 4.09 | 4.17 | 3.86 | 6.28 |
London | 24.36 | 16.13 | 15.10 | 20.17 |
North East | 3.27 | 2.85 | 3.33 | 4.89 |
North West | 10.63 | 7.65 | 6.13 | 9.55 |
South East | 6.20 | 6.06 | 5.59 | 8.45 |
South West | 4.05 | 6.21 | 6.03 | 8.24 |
West Midlands | 5.25 | 5.74 | 5.79 | 7.94 |
Yorkshire and Humber | 5.50 | 5.20 | 5.75 | 8.31 |
Scotland | 0.85 | 4.04 | 3.98 | 6.16 |
Wales | 1.29 | 4.05 | 3.87 | 4.77 |
Northern Ireland | 0.35 | 1.19 | 1.05 | 1.48 |
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Total | 69.84 | 66.53 | 64.11 | 91.25 |
* the geographical boundaries used to report lending in this table differ slightly from the NUTS1 definition. | ||||
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans to agree a sector deal on wind energy; and which organisations in Humberside his Department has had discussions with on such a deal in the last twelve months.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Offshore Wind Industry Council is working to develop an ambitious business-led offshore wind proposal for a sector deal.
The Department has not had specific discussions on a potential deal with organisations in Humberside. However, the Offshore Wind Industry Council has conducted an engagement exercise with the wider industry across the UK as part of their work in developing a Sector Deal proposal.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full time equivelent staff are employed by the British Business Bank in each NUTS 1 region.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
As at January 2018, the British Business Bank has 229 FTE employees in the Yorkshire and Humber, and London NUTS1 regions – 80 in Yorkshire and Humber; and 149 in London. This includes figures for SULCo, who merged with the Business Bank on 1st April 2017.
As noted in the Industrial Strategy White Paper, British Business Bank are rolling out a network of regional managers by autumn 2018 to ensure businesses across the UK know how to access sources of investment. The network will cover England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with managers responding to a region’s particular needs and acting as convenors to improve collaboration, sharing of expertise and the creation of networks of private and public partners.