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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when investing in business, what time period the Exchequer seeks for an economic return on its investment.

The Government considers relative value for money for all uses of Exchequer funding, using HMT Green Book methodology so that every pound of taxpayers’ money is invested wisely to provide a return to the people and businesses of the UK.

As per the Green Book, the most appropriate time period of analysis for each type of investment is applied.