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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what assessment he has made of the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what assessment he has made of the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises to...
The Department has not done a specific assessment of investment secured from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Life Sciences Sector Plan does however support SMEs through a suite of targeted interventions. The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund remains open and its pipeline includes companies of varying sizes. The Scale-Up Support Service directly supports 10-20 high-potential companies and is open to companies of all sizes. We also offer dedicated export assistance to SMEs. UKRI and NIHR are set to substantially enhance their offerings for BioTech and MedTech SMEs and the British Business Bank continues to invest in life sciences SMEs.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of a respiratory modern service framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation, and strengthening the UK's life sciences sector.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of a respiratory modern service framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation, and strengthening the UK's life sciences sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what estimate he has made of the number of additional apprenticeship places required to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what estimate he has made of the number of additional apprenticeship places required to...
The Life Sciences Sector Jobs Plan has been developed jointly with industry to address workforce shortages and their underlying causes, including skills gaps, retention, pay and job quality. The Government recognises the important role that apprenticeships play in developing the workforce needed by the life sciences sector. Life Sciences employers already make use of a range of high-quality apprenticeship standards to meet their skills needs, including in laboratory science, healthcare science and related technical occupations. Apprenticeships are only one of a range of routes that support the development of the future life sciences workforce, alongside other education, training and professional development pathways.
More broadly, the Government is committed to working with employers to ensure that the skills system responds to the needs of priority sectors, including life sciences, and to support employers to invest in the training and development of their workforce. Following the publication of the Life Sciences Jobs Plan, government and industry will work together to deliver the commitments laid out in the plan and assess the ongoing workforce and skills requirements within the sector.
In addition, this Government is transforming the Apprenticeships Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy in England, backed by £1 billion of additional investment, which will support 50,000 more young people into apprenticeships, give employers greater flexibility to develop the workforce they need, and support the industrial strategy. From August we are fully funding apprenticeship training for 16-24-year-olds with non-levy paying employers (typically SMEs), and from October we are introducing a new hiring payment of £2,000 for non-levy payers which take on 16-24 year old apprentices as new employees.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what estimate she has made of the number of jobs directly created by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what estimate she has made of the number of jobs directly created by...
The Department does not hold estimates for the number of jobs impact for all of the investments that make up the £3bn investment figure. However, we have assessed jobs created by the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund. £87 million has been committed so far to nine projects, unlocking £657 million of private investment, creating 272 jobs and safeguarding a further 1,030. Moderna’s £1bn investment in its new Innovation Centre in Harwell, as part of a 10-year strategic partnership with government to discover new therapies and boost pandemic resilience, will support around 150 highly-skilled jobs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what proportion of the funding represents (a) new private investment, (b) previously announced...
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what proportion of the funding represents (a) new private investment, (b) previously announced...
The £3bn investment figure consists exclusively of previously announced investments over the last year, from July 2025. Full details of the investments that make up that figure are included in the footnotes of the publication (Life Sciences Sector Plan: One Year On - GOV.UK).
Of the £3bn we expect over 90% to be private. This includes investment leveraged via the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund, which is providing up to £520 million in grants to companies to improve the UK’s manufacturing capability and resilience. Investments leveraged through this fund are forwards looking and are therefore subject to change.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what steps she is taking to ensure the life sciences roles created by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments, published on 9 July 2026, what steps she is taking to ensure the life sciences roles created by...
The recently published Life Sciences Jobs Plan (9 July 2026) sets out how government, industry, and partners across the UK will work together to give the sector the skilled domestic workforce it needs to fill an estimated 66,000 additional jobs in priority occupations by 2035. The Plan strengthens the UK talent pipeline through apprenticeships, T Levels, new V Levels, outreach, careers awareness, and support for SMEs. It also recognises that graduate pathways are fundamental, working with universities and industry to sustain them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a respiratory Modern Service Framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation and strengthening the UK's life sciences sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a respiratory Modern Service Framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation and strengthening the UK's life sciences sector.
Statement on the UK-Switzerland Enhanced Free Trade Agreement.
Statement on the UK-Switzerland Enhanced Free Trade Agreement.
With permission, Mr Speaker, I will update the House on the enhanced free trade agreement that was concluded yesterday between the United Kingdom and Switzerland. This is the sixth trade deal that the Government have secured over the last two years.
We already had an FTA with Switzerland, which was based...
With permission, Mr Speaker, I will update the House on the enhanced free trade agreement that was concluded yesterday between the United Kingdom and Switzerland. This is the sixth trade deal that the Government have secured over the last two years.
We already had an FTA with Switzerland, which was based...
I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement.
We Conservatives warmly welcome this excellent agreement and congratulate the Ministers and officials who delivered it. I was pleased, when I was the City Minister, to have been part of the team behind the forerunner, the Berne—[Interruption.] Would the Minister listen...
I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement.
We Conservatives warmly welcome this excellent agreement and congratulate the Ministers and officials who delivered it. I was pleased, when I was the City Minister, to have been part of the team behind the forerunner, the Berne—[Interruption.] Would the Minister listen...
It is an enormous delight to put a smile on the hon. Gentleman’s face. It is such a rare outing to see a smile on his face that I feel my job is done—my work is done.
It is an enormous delight to put a smile on the hon. Gentleman’s face. It is such a rare outing to see a smile on his face that I feel my job is done—my work is done.
Your legacy!
Your legacy!
My legacy will be a smile on the hon. Gentleman’s face. It was nice that he actually congratulated us. I think that is what he was doing. He said that was without any condition, but then he said it was really the Conservatives who started all of this business. It...
My legacy will be a smile on the hon. Gentleman’s face. It was nice that he actually congratulated us. I think that is what he was doing. He said that was without any condition, but then he said it was really the Conservatives who started all of this business. It...
I do not think you are meant to take part in the conversation, Madam Deputy Speaker.
I do not think you are meant to take part in the conversation, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Or deviate!
Or deviate!
Or deviate. Or repeat!
I do not want to exaggerate, but this may be the most significant iconic moment for the UK and Switzerland since Sean Connery and Ursula Andress met one another in “Dr. No” back in 1962. [Interruption]—no exaggeration at all, of any kind.
I am worried about one thing...
Or deviate. Or repeat!
I do not want to exaggerate, but this may be the most significant iconic moment for the UK and Switzerland since Sean Connery and Ursula Andress met one another in “Dr. No” back in 1962. [Interruption]—no exaggeration at all, of any kind.
I am worried about one thing...
I congratulate the Minister on deal No. 6. A very warm thanks, on behalf of the Committee, to the hard-working officials in the Department for Business and Trade and to James Squire and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office team on the ground in Berne. We very much look forward...
I congratulate the Minister on deal No. 6. A very warm thanks, on behalf of the Committee, to the hard-working officials in the Department for Business and Trade and to James Squire and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office team on the ground in Berne. We very much look forward...
I am very grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee; I look forward to seeing my right hon. Friend later today and then again tomorrow, in two different sessions. He is absolutely right that this is a very important deal. Of course, it is not just done by the...
I am very grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee; I look forward to seeing my right hon. Friend later today and then again tomorrow, in two different sessions. He is absolutely right that this is a very important deal. Of course, it is not just done by the...
The Liberal Democrats want a closer, more sensible relationship with our European friends and neighbours, so there is plenty to welcome here. I congratulate the Minister and his team on being able to secure some of the things we see today. Scrapping mobile roaming charges—charges that had to be changed...
The Liberal Democrats want a closer, more sensible relationship with our European friends and neighbours, so there is plenty to welcome here. I congratulate the Minister and his team on being able to secure some of the things we see today. Scrapping mobile roaming charges—charges that had to be changed...
Now, you see, the hon. Gentleman always has a smile on his face—every single day of the week. The hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) has managed to keep it going for at least half an hour now, so that is a good thing.
The honest truth is...
Now, you see, the hon. Gentleman always has a smile on his face—every single day of the week. The hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) has managed to keep it going for at least half an hour now, so that is a good thing.
The honest truth is...