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 has been spent in the UK on (a) basic research (b) applied research and (c) experimental development as defined in the Frascati Manual in each of the last 10 years.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides gross expenditure on R&D split by basic research, applied research and experimental research for OECD countries, including the UK based on ONS data. The latest data covers the period 2007 and 2014. It shows that the split of funding has been stable over time, at around 17% on basic research, 45% on applied research and 38% on experimental development. Further information can be found at http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RD_ACTIVITY.