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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to announce the allocations for UK Research and Innovation for 2019-20; and what steps he is taking to ensure that those allocations are made as soon as possible.

We are increasing spending on R&D by £7 billion over 5 years by 2021-22. This will be the largest increase ever.

The allocation of research and innovation funding for 2017-2021 was published in August 2018 and can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-and-innovation-funding-allocation-2017-to-2021.

UKRI and its councils published their Delivery Plans on 10 June as part of their UKRI 2019 event (www.UKRI.org/deliveryplans). These plans include the information about allocations for 2019-20, with a total UKRI annual budget of £7.5billion.