Regional Planning and Development: Research

(asked on 27th October 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 revised method of calculating private research and development expenditure and the Levelling up White Paper, whether his Department plans to redraft the research and development levelling up targets in the White Paper to reflect changes in national and regional private sector spend.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 1st November 2022

The Government welcomes the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS)’ ongoing efforts to improve the accuracy of its research and development (R&D) spending data. The ONS will publish new total R&D spending numbers up to 2020, plus private R&D investment up to 2021, on 17th November 2022.

The Government remains committed to levelling up and to taking forward the missions announced in the Levelling Up White Paper.

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