§ Sue DoughtyTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what definition of the terms(a) public sector and (b) business research and development used in the paper Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004–2014, published in July, with particular reference to table 1.1 of that paper. [188075]
§ Ms HewittThe sources for the statistics quoted in the Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004–2014 paper are the UK Office for National Statistics R&D surveys for the UK data and OECD for international comparisons. R&D statistics for OECD countries are compiled in line with guidelines set out in the OECD's Frascati Manual.
1856W(a) Public sector includes:
All UK-based departments, offices and other bodies which furnish, but normally do not sell to the community, those common services, other than higher education, which cannot otherwise be conveniently and economically provided, as well as those that administer the state and the economic and social policy of the community;UK-based non-profit institutions controlled and mainly financed by government, but not administered by the higher education sector; andUK-based non-market, private non-profit institutions serving households.(b) The business sector includes:
All UK-based firms, organisations and institutions whose primary activity is the market production of goods or services (other than higher education) for sale to the general public at an economically significant price;The UK-based private non-profit institutions mainly serving them.The public sector is essentially composed of UK Government Departments, the Research Councils, Higher Education Institutions and private non-profit institutions. The business sector is all private enterprises in the UK.