Oral Question·Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
“What steps he is taking with UK Research and Innovation to increase funding allocated to projects in regions of lower productivity.”
Tabled: 26 February 2020Answered: 3 March 2020
Asked by
Neil O'Brien
Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Sir Nicholas Dakin)
By immediately reducing prison overcrowding, we have made prisons safer to work in. We have also accepted the 5% pay award recommended for prison officers in full.