Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Box 3.6 on page 172 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, how much of the £210 million for the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation was contributed by (a) the Government and (b) IBM.

In 2021, the Government, via UK Research and Innovation, agreed to invest £172 million over five years for the new Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI). This is met with a £38 million in-kind contribution from IBM.