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Horizon 2020

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 60838, tabled on 19 January 2017

Question

Callum McCaig
Scottish National Party
Aberdeen South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Horizon 2020-funded research projects are underway in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK; and what steps he is taking to ensure that those projects will continue to have access to that funding after the UK leaves the EU.

Answer

Joseph Johnson
Conservative
Orpington
Commons

Answered on

24 January 2017

As of September 2016, there were 5,428 participations in Horizon 2020 across the UK, with 566 participations in Scotland 1.

The Treasury will underwrite all successful bids for Horizon 2020 that are approved by the Commission, even when specific projects continue beyond the departure from the EU. UK businesses and universities should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while we remain a member of the EU, and we will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded.

1https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-participation-in-horizon-2020-september-2016

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