Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many intellectual property licences the Department for Business and Trade holds under contracts or terms of reference for (1) grants, (2) pre-procurement or proof of concept work, and (3) procurement; how many of those have sub-licensing rights; how many of those have resulted in sub-licensing; and how many of those sub-licences are for patents, and for which countries.

The requested information is not readily available in respect of grants, pre-procurement proofs of concept or contracts. Investigation work in order to collect relevant information would incur a disproportionate cost.