Life Sciences Businesses - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 2:57 pm ar 26 Chwefror 2024.

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Photo of Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Ceidwadwyr 2:57, 26 Chwefror 2024

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of Oxford University Innovation. Following the excellent question from the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, I am pleased to report that university innovation is going from strength to strength. At the University of Oxford, we spun out an average of four to five companies in 2015, but there was an average of 20 in 2021. Investments in Oxford spin-outs went from £125 million a year from 2011 to 2015 to over £1 billion a year now; that is more than 45% of the country. The question is not how we get the innovation started—that is easy. The question is how we scale those companies and keep them in the UK. What are the Government doing to attract that growth capital and keep those companies here?