Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
193,089 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the proportion of university spin-out companies that subsequently scale into companies employing more than 50 people in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the extent to which university spin-out companies remain headquartered in the UK following their first significant institutional investment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the availability of later-stage capital on the ability of university spin-out companies to scale in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that publicly funded research which results in a commercially viable spin-out is accompanied by sufficient access to later-stage finance to suppor
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of regional disparities in the rate at which university research is converted into commercially successful spin-out companies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the contribution of university spin-out companies to regional economic growth.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of existing tax incentives in encouraging investment in university spin-out companies at the scale-up stage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the use of public procurement to provide university spin-out companies with opportunities to demonstrate and scale innovative
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the strategy for replacing animals in science on the UK’s international competitiveness in pharmaceutical research and develo
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that funding for the development of non-animal methods is co-ordinated across Government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to make the UK as a leader in establishing internationally recognised standards for validating non-animal methods for use in medicines developme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what discussions he has had with international partners on establishing common regulatory standards for non-animal methods in medicines development.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of international researchers recruited through the Global Talent visa on productivity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the retention rate of researchers recruited through the Global Talent visa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on aligning immigration policy for researchers with the industrial strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a national fast-track pathway for people with motor neurone disease on waiting times for social care assessments in (i) Buckinghamshire and (
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the capacity of local authorities to implement fast-track care pathways for people with motor neurone disease.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international partners to improve the collection and preservation of evidence relating to serious acts of violence in the West Bank.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with international partners on developing a co-ordinated approach to sanctions against individuals responsible for serious acts of violence in the
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of UK-US regulatory co-operation on the ability of smaller UK financial services firms to compete internationally.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the (i) Financial Conduct Authority and (ii) Bank of England on the regulatory implications of increased cross-border use of stablecoins between the UK and the United States.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent changes to venture capital tax incentives on investment in UK companies at Series (i) A and (ii) B stages.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of cross-border intelligence-sharing arrangements in disrupting organised immigration crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the ability of Border Security Command to identify links between organised immigration crime networks operating (a) in the UK and (b) overseas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of UK-Australia co-operation on advanced radar technology on sovereign defence industrial capability.