Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 12 December 2016, in response to Q311, who in his Department is responsible for assessing whether grant applications for Horizon 2020 funding are (a) value for money and (b) in line with Government objectives.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 20 December 2016 to Question UIN 57694.