Asked by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much EU funding was received by the higher education sector in the (a) UK and (b) North West in each financial year since 2010-11.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The table below shows the level of funding Higher Education Institutions in (a) the UK and (b) the North West, received from EU government bodies for research grants and contracts, the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund between 2010/11 and 2014/15.
Region | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 14/15 |
North West (£ thousands) | 44,358 | 45,624 | 53,153 | 59,752 | 67,035 |
UK (£ thousands) | 496,734 | 589,425 | 694,731 | 787,047 | 821,280 |
Source: BEIS analysis of the HESA Finance Record and the HE-BCI Survey
Asked by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's policy is on underground coal gasification.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department commissioned a report from Atkins into the greenhouse gas implications of underground coal gasification to inform Government policy about its development in the UK; this report was peer reviewed by academics and industry representatives.
The report finds that emissions from underground coal gasification would be too high to be consistent with our commitment to a low-carbon future, and would not accord with our recent ratification of the Paris Agreement. For these reasons, we are not minded to support the development of this technology in the UK.
The Atkins report can be found here: