Strategic Investment Fund Mr. Clifton-Brown To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding from the Strategic Investment Fund has been (a) disbursed and (b) allocated to projects in each (i) constituency, (ii) local authority area and (iii) Government Office region since the inception of that Fund. Mr. McFadden Over £720 million has already been allocated from the Strategic Investment Fund for specific projects and investments. We expect that in the region of £200 million will have been spent by the end of this current financial year. The SIF is a UK-wide fund, and many of the projects supported by the SIF are themselves UK-wide in geographical scope. This includes for example achieving universal access to broadband, as part of the Digital Britain programme, and the UK Innovation Investment Fund. It is not possible at present to provide information on the geographical distribution of spend under these projects. A number of other projects supported under the SIF can be identified to specific geographical locations, though the benefits of the projects will often be felt over a much wider area. Projects of this kind include the following, which will receive either full or part funding from the SIF: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Project |Geographical location |Total BIS support (£ million)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Industrial Biotech Demonstrator |Wilton, Teesside |12.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Airbus A350XWB Launch Investment |Broughton, Clwyd and Filton, SW England|340.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Printable Electronics Centre |Sedgefield, Durham |12.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rolls Royce low carbon aeroengine technology|Derby, East Midlands |45.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Centre of Excellence for Silicon Design |Bristol, SW England |0.5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National Composites Centre |Bristol, SW England |12.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stevenage Bioscience Park |Stevenage, Herts |12.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wave Hub—test-bed for wave energy devices |Hayle, Cornwall |9.5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West Marine Energy Development |SW England |10.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wave and Tidal Energy Test Centre |Blyth, Northumberland |10.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further details on these projects and other investments being funded from the SIF are contained in the Interim Report the Department published in October, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.