Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to Table 1f of the Office for National Statistics dataset entitled Research and development expenditure by the UK government, whether expenditure by UKRI in the years 2020 and 2021 includes expenditure on the Horizon Europe guarantee scheme.

The Horizon Europe Guarantee was launched in November 2021, with the first payment being made in 2022. This means that there is no Horizon Europe Guarantee expenditure included in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) dataset for the year 2020 in table 1f or in the calendar year 2021.

The Department expects the ONS tables to include any Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme expenditure as part of UKRI expenditure for future years.