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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when UK Research and Innovation plans to announce its funding allocations to (a) Research England and (b) the research councils for 2019-20.

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.