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.

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.