Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the the geographical spread of technology and knowledge economy jobs by region of the UK.
There is no single accepted definition of knowledge economy jobs. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes workforce jobs by region and industry in its JOBS05 dataset, and more detail is available through Nomis official labour market statistics at :https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/.
Separately the ONS publishes a country and region breakdown of business R&D employment in table 18 of the annual release on research and development performed in UK businesses (BERD). The rounded aggregate figures for 2019 were:
| Full time equivalent |
| Total |
United Kingdom | 263,000 |
North East | 6,000 |
North West | 20,000 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 14,000 |
East Midlands | 20,000 |
West Midlands | 26,000 |
East of England | 42,000 |
London | 31,000 |
South East | 50,000 |
South West | 22,000 |
England | 232,000 |
Wales | 7,000 |
Scotland | 15,000 |
Northern Ireland | 9,000 |