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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in (a) cash terms and (b) constant prices in the UK (i) aircraft and (ii) spacecraft industry in the last 20 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in (a) cash terms and (b) constant prices in the UK (i) aircraft and (ii) spacecraft industry in the last 20 years.
Whilst we are unable to separate out “Aircraft” and “Spacecraft”, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) currently publish an annual bulletin on MOD Regional Expenditure with Industry which includes details on MOD’s spending with UK industry in the combined category of “Aircraft and Spacecraft”.
The table below shows this industry spend in both current and constant prices for the last 20 years (2005/06 to 2024/25).
Financial | Aircraft and Spacecraft | Aircraft and Spacecraft |
2005/06 | 1,730 | 2,812 |
2006/07 | 1,960 | 3,103 |
2007/08 | 2,100 | 3,246 |
2008/09 [b] [note 1] | 2,480 | 3,699 |
2009/10 | 2,640 | 3,886 |
2010/11 [b] [note 2] | 2,710 | 3,915 |
2011/12 [b] [note 3] | 2,430 | 3,449 |
2012/13 | 2,460 | 3,429 |
2013/14 [b] [note 4] | 2,452 | 3,353 |
2014/15 | 2,235 | 3,019 |
2015/16 | 2,007 | 2,693 |
2016/17 | 1,832 | 2,403 |
2017/18 | 1,719 | 2,220 |
2018/19 | 1,619 | 2,047 |
2019/20 | 1,570 | 1,940 |
2020/21 [b] [note 5] | 1,612 | 1,890 |
2021/22 | 1,728 | 2,038 |
2022/23 | 2,023 | 2,229 |
2023/24 | 2,205 | 2,294 |
2024/25 | 2,449 | 2,449 |
Notes:
[b] signifies a break in series
1 Break in series between 2007/08 and 2008/09. For 2008/09 onwards, industrial groupings are based on Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007 codes. Prior to this, industrial groupings may have used SIC 1992 or SIC 2003 guidelines
2 Break in series between 2009/10 and 2010/11 due to methodology changes, resulting in significant changes in allocation of spending to several industry groupings including that of Aircraft and Spacecraft.
3 Break in series between 2011/12 and 2012/13 due to a reclassification of Resource Account Codes, more extensive exclusion of 'Other Government Organisations' and improvements to processes on SIC code data cleansing.
4 Break in series between 2012/13 and 2013/14 due to methodology changes. Improvements were made to identify expenditure to be excluded as overseas, with Other Government Departments, or related to elements such as pay.
5 Break in series between 2019/20 and 2020/21 due to methodology changes. Direct comparison across the years 2019/20 to 2020/21 should not be made, longer comparisons across the time series should still be valid noting other breaks in series. More details can be found by visiting the background quality report (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-regional-expenditure-statistics-with-industry-202425).
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on enhancing regulation of (a) commercial and (b) experimental technologies for (i) marine and (ii) outer space experiential excursions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on enhancing regulation of (a) commercial and (b) experimental technologies for (i) marine and (ii) outer space experiential excursions.
MARINE EXCURSIONS
The Government can only regulate vessels in UK waters, and UK-flagged vessels wherever they are in the world. There are no regulations covering deep-sea submersibles used in international waters, and there is only one submersible listed on the UK flag. No non-UK-flagged manned civilian submersibles operate in the UK.
The Government does not have plans to review the UK regulatory regime here.
OUTER SPACE EXCURSIONS
The Space Industry Act 2018 (the 2018 Act) and Space Industry Regulations 2021 (the 2021 Regulations) provides the legislative framework for the licensing of space activities, sub-orbital activities, and associated activities carried out in the UK, including sub-orbital missions involving human occupants.
However, the Government does not have plans at present to permit, and therefore has not commenced provisions in the 2018 Act for, the licensing of orbital spaceflight involving human occupants; or the licensing of spaceflight activities involving hypersonic (or any other experimental) transport from one point to another (A to B).
That this House commends NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover at the end of its incredible 15-year mission exploring the surface of the red planet; understands that the last communication from the six-wheeled solar-powered robot came on 10 June 2018 just before it was enveloped by a dust storm; acknowledges that Opportunity’s mission was officially declared over on 13 February 2019 after exhaustive efforts by engineers to re-establish contact; recalls that Opportunity and its twin rover Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004 with the goal of investigating whether the planet ever had the conditions necessary to support life; recognises that the golf-buggy sized robots were designed to last just 90 Martian days and travel 1km but vastly exceeded that expectation with Spirit working for six years and logging a drive distance of almost 8km and Opportunity travelling 45km over 14.5 years; congratulates everyone at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the extraordinary scientific achievement of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission and on the contribution that it has made to humanity’s collective understanding of the solar system; wishes a very safe onward journey to the Curiosity Rover which landed in 2012 and is now the last surviving rover on Mars; and sends its sincere thanks to Opportunity, which has come to its final resting place in Mars’s Perseverance Valley at the end of its incredible journey.
That this House commends NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover at the end of its incredible 15-year mission exploring the surface of the red planet; understands that the last communication from the six-wheeled solar-powered robot came on 10 June 2018 just before it was enveloped by a dust storm; acknowledges that Opportunity’s...
Amendment to clause 33 negatived on division (2 votes to 10). Another amendment debated and withdrawn. Clause 33 agreed to. Government amendments to clause 34 agreed to. Clauses 34 to 71 agreed to. Schedules 6 to 12 agreed to. Government new clause 1 (Grant of licences: assessments of environmental effects) agreed to. New clause 2 (Potential impact of leaving the European Union on the United Kingdom's space industry), debated and withdrawn. Bill, as amended, to be reported (Bill 155). Written evidence reported to the House.
Amendment to clause 33 negatived on division (2 votes to 10). Another amendment debated and withdrawn. Clause 33 agreed to. Government amendments to clause 34 agreed to. Clauses 34 to 71 agreed to. Schedules 6 to 12 agreed to. Government new clause 1 (Grant of licences: assessments of environmental effects)...
This POSTnote describes the UK’s involvement in the space station, and examines the way ahead in the light of the US budget constraints and European aspirations in space. POSTnote 7. POST. 1990.
This POSTnote describes the UK’s involvement in the space station, and examines the way ahead in the light of the US budget constraints and European aspirations in space. POSTnote 7. POST. 1990.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what collaboration is taking place between universities, space companies and the European Space Agency on developing nuclear engine technology for future spacecraft.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what collaboration is taking place between universities, space companies and the European Space Agency on developing nuclear engine technology for future spacecraft.
European Space Agency has no active nuclear engine programme and we are not aware of any activities taking place with regards to such technology in the UK.
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what components of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft were supplied by United Kingdom companies. [HL2347]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what components of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft were supplied by United Kingdom companies. [HL2347]
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 were important missions launched primarily to explore Jupiter and Saturn and continuing for over 35 years covering Uranus, Neptune and beyond. They created a valuable scientific legacy used by UK scientists and leading on to other missions eg ESA’s Cassini/Huygens mission.
Voyager was a US NASA programme and the spacecraft were launched in 1977; the development would have taken place several years prior to this. The spacecraft build was undertaken by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientific instruments built at US institutes.
The UK Space Agency, which was established on 1 April 2011, holds all records relating to UK involvement in space missions. The UK Space Agency does not hold any records of UK companies supplying components going back to the time of the development of the Voyager spacecraft.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions he has had with the European Space Agency on the viability of the Skylon Spaceplace; and if he will make a statement.
[121451]
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions he has had with the European Space Agency on the viability of the Skylon Spaceplace; and if he will make a statement.
[121451]
Neither I nor UK Space Agency officials have held discussions with the European Space Agency
recently. Officials continue to work with the company to establish a business case and the technical viability of the Skylon Spaceplane.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what preparations his Department is making on a regulatory framework for reusable spaceplanes; and if he will make a statement.
[121531]
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what preparations his Department is making on a regulatory framework for reusable spaceplanes; and if he will make a statement.
[121531]
I announced at Farnborough International in July that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Transport would undertake a joint review of the regulatory framework needed for reusable space planes. This review is ongoing.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many British scientific personnel have served on the orbiting International Space Station since it began ten years ago; and what percentage of the total number that has represented in each year.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many British scientific personnel have served on the orbiting International Space Station since it began ten years ago; and what percentage of the total number that has represented in each year.
That this House welcomes the launch of the Deep Impact Spacecraft, which is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet Temple; notes that years after the Government's Near Earth Object Task Group published its report confirming the peril of a potential impact by a large comet or asteroid most of the recommended action steps have yet to be implemented; further notes that such an impact in an ocean basin could generate a tsunami 1,000 metres high, major fires and other catastrophic events; and calls on the Government to implement the 14 recommendations of the NEO Task Group report without further delay.
That this House welcomes the launch of the Deep Impact Spacecraft, which is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet Temple; notes that years after the Government's Near Earth Object Task Group published its report confirming the peril of a potential impact by a large comet or asteroid most of the recommended...
Motion to take note of European Union document No 14886/03 + ADD1, the Commission white paper on European space policy. Agreed on question (formal).
Motion to take note of European Union document No 14886/03 + ADD1, the Commission white paper on European space policy. Agreed on question (formal).
EU document 14886/2003 [and 14886/2003/ADD1] the Commission's White Paper on European Space Policy. Considered by Standing Committee. (Vote).
EU document 14886/2003 [and 14886/2003/ADD1] the Commission's White Paper on European Space Policy. Considered by Standing Committee. (Vote).
That this House extends its sympathy and condolences to the families of the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and shares with the American and Israeli people their sense of loss; expresses its admiration for the scientific endeavour of all those involved in the international space programme; and believes that it must continue.
That this House extends its sympathy and condolences to the families of the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and shares with the American and Israeli people their sense of loss; expresses its admiration for the scientific endeavour of all those involved in the international space programme; and believes that...
Statement on Iraq and meeting with President George Bush in Washington. (Also includes message of condolence on the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster). (Inc ref to report in Library - Dep 03/338).
Statement on Iraq and meeting with President George Bush in Washington. (Also includes message of condolence on the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster). (Inc ref to report in Library - Dep 03/338).
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support her Department is giving to the European Trans-Sonic Wind Tunnel. - Inc figures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support her Department is giving to the European Trans-Sonic Wind Tunnel. - Inc figures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what funding the Government has provided for the Beagle 2 spacecraft; and if she will make a statement on the mission. - Includes figures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what funding the Government has provided for the Beagle 2 spacecraft; and if she will make a statement on the mission. - Includes figures.