Q. Higher Education: Research

Higher Education: Research

(asked on 16th May 2018) - View Source

Questioner

Jim Cunningham
(Labour - Coventry South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much government research funding was provided to each higher education institution in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by

Sam Gyimah

This question was answered on 21st May 2018

The Research Councils and HEFCE have provided the following amount of research funding to each higher education institution in the West Midlands in each year since 2010. Table 1 shows research grants and contracts income from Research Councils and Table 2 shows income from HEFCE research grants.

Table 1

Income from Research Councils (£k)

	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17
Aston University	1767	1267	2404	3049	3534	4097	3602
Birmingham City University	249	386	261	227	309	210	192
The University of Birmingham	35241	32975	32610	34092	38098	44355	39436
University College Birmingham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coventry University	591	777	852	1174	826	1099	957
Harper Adams University (Harper Adams University College until 2012/13)	109	229	196	142	377	868	356
Keele University†	2767	2726	2501	2494	2326	2599	2305
Newman University	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Staffordshire University	75	72	113	89	7	13	18
The University of Warwick	32421	28160	28565	32087	35219	37716	37109
The University of Wolverhampton	536	190	-12	304	218	18	89
University of Worcester	0	0	0	23	136	87	253

Table 2

Income from HEFCE research grant (£k)

	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17
Aston University	6256	6043	5893	5893	5756	6084	5892
Birmingham City University	249	1635	1597	1710	1742	2153	2142
The University of Birmingham	35241	42249	42371	41865	41572	39619	40488
University College Birmingham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Coventry University	591	1980	1843	1903	1936	3222	3261
Harper Adams University (Harper Adams University College until 2012/13)	109	334	284	299	371	532	546
Keele University†	2767	6528	6178	6200	6293	7011	6927
Newman University	0	42	25	17	16	134	154
Staffordshire University	75	654	562	527	530	724	711
The University of Warwick	32421	32950	33819	33306	34215	34879	35900
The University of Wolverhampton	536	1937	1790	1783	1800	1884	1956
University of Worcester	0	216	142	178	211	931	894

Source – Higher Education Statistics Agency “Finance Plus” publications 2010/11 to 2016/17.

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