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Research: Finance

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 149340, tabled on 29 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of trends in the levels of real-terms research funding since 2010.

Answered on

4 April 2022

The Office for National Statistics publishes data on UK gross expenditure on research and development (GERD). Its latest published figures show £38.5 billion in 2019 compared to £25.9 billion in 2010, a nominal increase of about 49%. Adjusted for changes in the GDP deflator, this suggests an increase in constant prices of about 26% over the same period.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy