Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when Innovate UK provided funds to Study Hall Ltd; and how much those funds were.
Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Study Hall Ltd has been awarded two grants through the Innovate UK SMART grant competition. These projects were awarded funding of £349,976 and £349,972 and started in 2022 and 2023 respectively. All Innovate UK funding decisions are made through a rigorous and competitive transparent process by independent experts. Details of these grants are published on UKRI’s website (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10035378; https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10061813).
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when Innovate UK provided funds to Digme Fitness; and how much those funds were.
Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
There is no record of the organisation Digme Fitness applying for, or being awarded, grant funding from Innovate UK.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the sale of prescription-only drugs on illicit websites.
Answered by Saqib Bhatti - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Where individuals sell illegal drugs on their own website, they may be committing an offence. This may then be a matter for law enforcement and/or regulatory bodies such as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
The Online Safety Act also puts duties on user-to-user and search service providers to tackle illegal third-party content accessed on or via their service. They must take proactive action against online offending such as illegal sale of drugs and must protect children from other legal content which could cause harm to them.