Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, whether it is his policy to provide funding for Help to Grow Management to each region and devolved nation in the UK on a ring-fenced basis.

This government is committed to ensuring that all regions and nations in the UK benefit from Help to Grow: Management. The programme will be delivered by business schools across the UK.

HM Treasury has provided ringfenced funding to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for Help to Grow: Management. Within this allocation, funding has not been ringfenced for each region and devolved nation.

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy will determine the funding allocated to each business school – and thereby to each region and devolved nation – in collaboration with its delivery partner, the Chartered Association of Business Schools.