Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Department for Transport has spent on research and development in (a) aviation and (b) aerospace in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.
The total amount spent by the Department for Transport on both aviation and aerospace research and development is provided below. These figures include both sectors. It is not possible to separate the expenditure as many individual research projects include aspects of both:
2014/15: £1,137,725
2015/16: £2,683,895
2016/17: £1,571,768
2017/18: £1,485,789
The figures above do not include any spend which may have been incurred by other Government departments in this area.