Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding allocated from the public purse to businesses in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry to encourage (i) economic growth and (ii) employment in each of the last three years.

Through Coventry and Warwickshire LEP, £1.3m of Local Growth Funding supported a Business Investment Fund which provided funding to support business expansion projects, seed funding for new technologies and small scale infrastructure improvements to enhance access to business sites.