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Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 November 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 23 November 2018. It was answered by Sam Gyimah (Conservative) on Thursday, 29 November 2018 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Research: Expenditure

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much the Government has spent on R&D in each of the last five years.

Answer

The Government has increased spending on R&D in the last five years.

Table 3 of the ONS statistical bulletin “UK Government expenditure on science, engineering and technology 2016” gives the following figures for total UK Government net expenditure on R&D, including indicative UK contributions to EU R&D, of

£ million

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

9,953

10,816

10,941

11,070

11,230

We have an ambition to raise total public and private R&D expenditure to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. As a first step to reaching the 2.4% target, we announced in the 2016 Autumn Statement, and expanded in the 2017 Budget, an additional of £7 billion for R&D over 5 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22 as part of the National Productivity Investment Fund.

We expect to see 2017 data next March.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
194083
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Expenditure Research
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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