Science and Innovation Funding 2025-06-25
2025-06-25
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The Chancellor has announced increases in the R&D budget, which will benefit York constituency. BioYorkshire is a national leader in the bioeconomy set to create 4,000 jobs over a decade.
York and North Yorkshire is a national leader in the bioeconomy with BioYorkshire creating 4,000 jobs. The project needs £67 million for facilities but will generate £215 million back into the economy. When will the science plan recognise this impact? Can we have a meeting about the BioYorkshire project?
My hon. Friend is right that it is a brilliant project precisely the kind of thing the UK excels at: we manage to get the private sector working with Government and local government to deliver not only jobs but real innovation. As the Secretary of State is not here today, I am sure I can offer my hon. Friend the opportunity of a meeting with him.
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Did not specify when the science plan will recognise the impact of BioYorkshire.
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Tech start-ups are leaving the UK for Silicon Valley, costing jobs and tax revenue.
Over the past decade many tech start-ups have left the UK and gone to silicon valley, which costs the UK a huge amount in jobs and tax revenue. What are the Government doing to ensure that start-ups currently at seed stage stay in the UK and grow here so that we avoid the UK becoming an intellectual property farm for other countries to harvest?
One really important part of the industrial strategy we published on Monday and the sector plans within it is that we identified a problem many people in the UK face, which is that they have a really good idea but cannot take it to market because they do not have access to finance, in particular to capital, unless they are in London—and sometimes unless they are a man. We want to change all that, which is why we have said categorically that we are giving the British Business Bank much more significant power to be able to invest in these sectors.
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