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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a long-term budget that estimates the amount of investment from the public purse in R&D to reach 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027.

The Government is working with UK Research and Innovation and other key partners to develop a roadmap that sets out how government and industry will work together to reach the 2.4% target by 2027.

The roadmap, including an assessment of the measures required to put us on a trajectory to the 2.4% target, will be published in 2019.