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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2018 to Question 202141 on UK Research and Innovation: Per Capita Costs, what the same information was for (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

Supporting the Industrial Strategy’s ambition to raise total R&D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. The government is increasing spending on R&D by £7bn by 2021-22. This will be the largest increase ever.

The table below shows expenditure by the 9 councils that now make up UKRI, per head of population in each region and nation of the UK. The expenditure figures include Research Council and Innovate UK grants, and HEFCE/Research England’s Research Capital Investment Fund, Quality-related research (QR) funding and Higher Education Innovation Funding

Innovate UK data is recorded against the address a business included on its application form, which can be a head office rather than the location of the research or innovation itself. Similarly, Research council grants are recorded against the address of the principal investigator on a project but expenditure may occur in other locations.