Defence: Research
(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was received by his Department from the Commercial Exploitation Levy in the financial years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 21st January 2020
The commercial exploitation levy is a form of royalty for any commercial sales of a design, use of special tooling or the granting of licences where the Ministry of Defence has contributed to research and development costs. The gross amount received in each year since 2015-16 is in the table:
Year | £ million |
2015-16 | 20.1 |
2016-17 | 10.8 |
2017-18 | 6.6 |
2018-19 | 52.7 |