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Research: Regional Planning and Development

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 116929, tabled on 2 February 2022

Question

Chi Onwurah
Labour
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 170 of the Levelling Up White Paper, whether he plans for public research and development investment in every region outside the Greater South East to increase by 40 per cent.

Answer

George Freeman
Conservative
Mid Norfolk
Commons

Answered on

8 February 2022

By 2030, domestic public investment in R&D outside the Greater South East will increase by at least 40%, and over the Spending Review period by at least one third.

We have not set specific targets for each region - the 40% increase refers to regions outside the Greater South East in aggregate. This ensures we are not constraining the ambitions of any one region.

This mission will complement more targeted interventions in places with high R&D potential, including the £100m investment Innovation Accelerators supporting three UK city regions to become major, globally competitive centres for research and innovation.

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