In the Autumn Budget yesterday, Chancellor, Philip Hammond  provided the largest boost to R&D support for 40 years with a further £2.3 billion allocated.

The Government has set out a long term plan to boost UK productivity which sees “an economy driven by innovation that will see the UK becoming a world leader in new and emerging technologies”.

Philip Hammond said that this additional boost represented “the first strides towards the ambition of our industrial strategy to drive up R&D investment across the economy to 2.4 per cent of GDP”.

 

Government action at this Budget to boost productivity includes:

Transport: £1.7 billion new transforming cities fund through the NPIF to improve connectivity and support jobs across England’s great city regions

Research and Development: The largest boost to R&D support for 40 years with a further £2.3 billion investment from the NPIF in 2021-22

Long Term Investment: Unlocking over £20 billion of patient capital, over the next 10 years so that innovative high-growth firms can achieve their full potential

Emerging Tech: Leading the world in developing standards and ethics for the use of data and AI, and creating the most advanced regulatory framework for driverless cars in the world

Skills: Creating a new partnership with industry and trade unions to deliver a National Retraining Scheme, giving people the skills they need throughout life to get a well-paid job, and equipping young people with the science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) skills to become innovators of the future*

We have seen in figures from earlier this year that of the 22,445 claims across the UK totaling £2.45bn in tax benefits, only 2,200 claims came from companies in the North West and resulted in just £130m received in tax benefit.

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*source https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2017-documents/autumn-budget-2017