Driverless Vehicles: Research

(asked on 21st September 2022) - View Source

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 the £66 million of R&D expenditure to support the commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies, whether that expenditure is additional to that provided in existing and future (a) UK Research and Innovation budgets and (b) national R&D spend levels and targets; and if he will provide a breakdown of how that expenditure will be allocated on a regional basis.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 12th October 2022

The Government has allocated £66 million BEIS R&D to the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to pilot commercially sustainable deployments of self-driving services and a growing UK-based supply chain. This targeted funding is additional to wider UK Research and Innovation budgets and supports national R&D spend levels and targets.

This funding is available nationally but not regionally allocated due to the independently assessed competition process. Early indications are that there is interest from across the UK.

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