Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Expenditure

(asked on 5th January 2016) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2015 to Question 1958, what the total budget of the BIS Automotive sector team was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 11th January 2016

The total administrative budget associated with the BIS Automotive sector team for the last five financial years was £6,265,356. This is illustrated below:


Financial Year Administrative Cost

11/12 £1,393,614*^

12/13 £1,187,636^

13/14 £1,207,986^

14/15 £1,256,570^

15/16 £1,219,550^

*Includes funding for the Advanced Manufacturing Showcasing team who were under the same administrative budget for these years.

^ Includes one FTE on loan to the Office for Low Emission Vehicles.


The total budget to support Industrial R&D primarily for the Advanced Propulsion Centre and Driverless cars over the last 3 years* was:


RDEL(Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit) - £79.327m

CDEL (Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit) - £11m.

RDEL CDEL

13/14 £452,000 £0

14/15 £26,000,000 £5,000,000

15/16 £52,875,000 £6,000,000

*There is no data available for 11/12 and 12/13

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