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Horizon Europe

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 133177, tabled on 2 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish a regional breakdown of the successful applications to the Horizon programme.

Answered on

7 March 2022

As Horizon Europe only recently started, data on successful bids will be reviewed as the programme progresses. The regional distribution of funding under Horizon 2020 – the predecessor programme to Horizon Europe – is publicly available data. It can be seen in the table below. UK entities are already eligible to apply to Horizon Europe calls ahead of formal UK association to the programme.

UK Regions

% of UK receipts

London

25.3%

South East

17.0%

Scotland

11.4%

East of England

11.3%

South West

7.9%

Yorkshire and Humber

6.3%

North West

6.1%

West Midlands

5.4%

East Midlands

3.1%

North East

2.9%

Wales

2.0%

Northern Ireland

1.0%

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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