{"value":{"id":1420587,"askingMemberId":4124,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-02-07T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-02-10T00:00:00","uin":"119555","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide a regional breakdown of (a) his Department's R&D spending overall and (b) UKRI’s spending in the financial year (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21 and (iii) 2021-22.","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4020,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-02-14T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>In the Levelling Up White paper BEIS committed to work to collect this data at a regional level for all of its R&D spend.</p><p> </p><p>UKRI publish detailed breakdowns of their funding data at a regional level annually, the latest available data is on UKRI's <a href=\"https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Four-work%2Fwhat-we-have-funded%2Fregional-distribution-of-funding%2F&data=04%7C01%7CSRIHub%40beis.gov.uk%7C2afb99083c1348f42fee08d9eb247fda%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637799364252726278%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=mAeVuJQGW6crArHEDsE3T%2BfDIpuV7yll4npNecdY9og%3D&reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Regional distribution of funding – UKRI</a>. In addition, the UKRI Gateway <a href=\"https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgtr.ukri.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7CSRIHub%40beis.gov.uk%7C2afb99083c1348f42fee08d9eb247fda%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637799364252726278%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=tFOGbEtoonXRX8i6tbi9KzUsHbldGIwDFfIJvPV85Mw%3D&reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">https://gtr.ukri.org/</a> provides data on publicly funded research and innovation which is searchable by year and region.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Research: Expenditure","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1420587","method":"GET"}]}