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 172 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, how much and what proportion of the £33 million investment in the Driving the Electric Revolution programme for Power Electronics Machines and Drives Industrialisation Centres will be allocated to Newcastle.

Through the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge, UK Research and Innovation has made an award of £33m to Newcastle University, which will be used to establish four Industrialisation Centres across the UK, involving a range of partners throughout the four locations. Newcastle University will be responsible for establishing and managing the North East Industrialisation Centre, which will include a physical centre in Sunderland.