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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 124970, tabled on 25 January 2018

Question

Dr Philippa Whitford
Scottish National Party
Central Ayrshire
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government is providing to UK companies that have already been excluded from bidding for projects from the European Space Agency on the basis that the UK is leaving the EU.

Answer

Mr Sam Gyimah
Conservative
East Surrey
Commons

Answered on

30 January 2018

The European Space Agency (ESA) is independent of the European Union. Therefore our support for the European Space Agency is largely unaffected by the decision to leave the European Union. Indeed we made subscriptions of €1.4 bn at the ESA Ministerial meeting in Lucerne in December 2016 which is allowing UK companies to bid for ESA grants and contracts.

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