Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding for research and development his Department has allocated to each industry sector; and what the (a) total tax receipt and (b) proportion of total tax receipts from each of those sectors was in each of the last 10 years.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funding for industrial R&D is delivered by Innovate UK which allocates the majority of its support on a thematic rather than a sectoral basis.

The programmes and projects supported can be spread across a number of sectors, and a sectoral analysis is not available.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes Business Enterprise R&D (BERD) data on how much UK government as a whole funds R&D performed in businesses. This is analysed by 33 product groups but again this information doesn’t map easily to industrial sectors.

Tax receipts are a matter for HM Revenue and Customs.