Michael Weir
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Business), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much research and development funding has been directed towards the oil and gas sector since 2010; and what proportion that is of all UK research and development funding in that period.
Matthew Hancock
Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), Minister of State for Portsmouth, The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
The latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics for expenditure on research and development performed in business enterprises (BERD) can be found here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_385959.pdf.
Relevant data extracted from this report on expenditure on R&D performed in the extractive industries product group over 2010 - 2013 is given in the table below.
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
BERD expenditure on R&D in extractive industries product group (£m) | 114 | 194 | 215 | 225 |
% of total BERD expenditure on R&D in extractive industries product group | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
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