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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment he has made of the UK's investment in research and innovation as a proportion of gross domestic product to that of (a) EU member states, (b) non-EU countries with associated status, (c) the US and (d) China.

Data on total R&D expenditure in other countries are published on the OECD website. Gross investment in R&D in the UK was 1.67% of GDP in 2014. This compares to the EU average of 1.95%, the OECD average of 2.38%, 2.74% in the United States (in 2013) and 2.05% in China.

The 2015 data for UK expenditure on R&D will be published by the Office for National Statistics in March 2017.