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.
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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These figures include individual overheads and travel costs.