The fund for stimulating innovation in occupational health (OH) funded five projects in Phase 2. Up to £300,000, inclusive of VAT, was allocated for each contract, to develop a prototype and undertake field testing for up to 12 months. The following table shows the projects to reform OH, their actual spend, and the project participant’s name:

Further details on each of the projects have been published on the Innovate UK transparency page.

Following the normal practice of Innovate UK, projects will not be required to deposit their self-reported outcomes in the Library of the House due to commercial confidentiality considerations.

Projects funded through the Small Business Research Initiative have submitted self-reported outcomes to the Government for internal assessment. The reports suggest that the fund has helped to stimulate innovation in the occupational health market and encouraged the development of new models of occupational health tailored to the self-employed and small to medium enterprises with better use of technology.

Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative (now renamed to Contracts for Innovation) has published an evaluation demonstrating its impact, including:

• £788m awarded through SBRI competitions between 2008 and 2022
• Business applicants from NI made up approximately 3% of applicants
• The benefits to the businesses awarded the funding amount to 1.5 to 4 times the cost of public sector investment

The Small Business Research Initiative competition is funded by a Department of Health and Social Care non-Official Development Assistance budget. Research specifically on Tuberculosis (TB) pathogens was deprioritised for this competition as there are established global funds targeting the development of new treatments for TB.

The United Kingdom is contributing to a reduction in drug resistant TB by implementing the Collaborative TB Strategy for England, which parallels and integrates with the aims and actions of the UK Antimicrobial Resistance strategy.

The value of Small Business Research Initiative contracts in 2016/17 as reported to Innovate UK by Departments is set out below:

We do not currently hold data on individual firms. However, we do hold information on the number of contracts awarded under the scheme.

Firms are awarded Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) funding through contracts on a competitive basis in two phases:

(i) Phase 1, which typically provides up to £100,000 for companies to test the feasibility of their ideas;

(ii) Phase 2, which typically provides up to £1,000,000 for companies to develop a prototype or demonstrator.

The details of Phase 1 and Phase 2 SBRI contracts awarded are below:

On 21 November, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that she had asked David Connell from the Centre for Business Research at the Cambridge Judge Business School to review the Small Business Research Initiative.

The review is examining how we can maximise the impact of the SBRI programme to improve procurement outcomes for government, support and stimulate innovation by SMEs.

The review will report in spring this year.

We do not currently hold data on individual firms. However, we do hold information on the number of contracts awarded under the scheme.

Firms are awarded Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) funding through contracts on a competitive basis in two phases:

(i) Phase 1, which typically provides up to £100,000 for companies to test the feasibility of their ideas;

(ii) Phase 2, which typically provides up to £1,000,000 for companies to develop a prototype or demonstrator.

The details of Phase 1 and Phase 2 SBRI contracts awarded are below:

On 21 November, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that she had asked David Connell from the Centre for Business Research at the Cambridge Judge Business School to review the Small Business Research Initiative.

The review is examining how we can maximise the impact of the SBRI programme to improve procurement outcomes for government, support and stimulate innovation by SMEs.

The review will report in spring this year.

We do not currently hold data on individual firms. However, we do hold information on the number of contracts awarded under the scheme.

Firms are awarded Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) funding through contracts on a competitive basis in two phases:

(i) Phase 1, which typically provides up to £100,000 for companies to test the feasibility of their ideas;

(ii) Phase 2, which typically provides up to £1,000,000 for companies to develop a prototype or demonstrator.

The details of Phase 1 and Phase 2 SBRI contracts awarded are below:

On 21 November, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that she had asked David Connell from the Centre for Business Research at the Cambridge Judge Business School to review the Small Business Research Initiative.

The review is examining how we can maximise the impact of the SBRI programme to improve procurement outcomes for government, support and stimulate innovation by SMEs.

The review will report in spring this year.

The value of contracts awarded through the Small Business Research Initiative in each year for which records are available is as follows:

The Department has run a number of competitions under the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) and has had a budget as follows: fiscal year 2012-13 £2 million; fiscal 2013-14 £5 million; fiscal 2014-15 £2 million and fiscal 2015-16 £6 million. The Department has awarded contracts valued as follows:

2012-13: £1.07 million, the Department also contributed £1 million to other health related SBRI competitions.

2013-14: £5.59 million

2014-15: £10.15 million

It should be noted that SBRI is now firmly embedded within NHS England’s Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare). Hence, the Department has not launched any new competitions since 2013.

SBRI Healthcare was established in 2013 by NHS England. As such, NHS England is responsible for setting this programme’s budget, which it has done as follows: fiscal year 2013-14 £10 million; fiscal 2014-15 £20 million; fiscal 2015-16 £20 million. The budget, once allocated to SBRI Healthcare, is then delegated to the Academic Health Science Networks to manage the implementation of the programme.

NHS England has awarded contracts valued as follows:

2013-14: £13.49 million

2014-15: £22.29 million

2015-16: £15.94 million to-date.

Further assessments are due to take place this month which could result in additional awards of around £1.6 million.

The level of investment in SBRI Healthcare reflects NHS England’s ongoing commitment to promoting innovation in the National Health Service and United Kingdom economic growth.

This information is being researched and will be placed in the Libraries of the House as soon as possible.