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Fax: 01603-723000 or e-mail: [email protected] The Government’s Expenditure Plans 2001-02 to 2003-04 and Main Estimates 2001-02 Trade and Industry 2001 Department of Trade and Industry Export Credits Guarantee Department Office of Fair Trading Office of Telecommunications Office of Gas and Electricity Markets Postal Services Commission Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Command of Her Majesty. March 2001. Cm 5112 £43.80 1 Trade and Industry 2001 Foreword Foreword Foreword by the Secretary of State for Improving skills, abilities and know-how Trade and Industry I To ensure that the UK continues to attract the best students to scientific training, we are increasing the This, my third Expenditure Plans Report for the basic stipend for PhD students from £6,800 per year Department of Trade and Industry, describes the in 2000-01 to £9,000 in 2003-04. Department’s activities and achievements over the past year. In particular, it describes our progress against the I We launched a £10 million joint scheme with the current Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets and Wolfson Foundation to recruit, reward and develop a sets out our new PSA targets and spending priorities number of the very best researchers from around the for 2001-04. world and the UK in key areas of science. We are living through a period of massive change: new I We supported ‘Enterprise Insight’, launched by the technology and competitive pressures can be seen in all Prime Minister to promote entrepreneurship among our daily lives.The role of Government is to work with young people. individuals, communities and businesses to help them create opportunity through change. By building on the I We announced the Second Round of the Science foundations of economic success and developing Enterprise Fund, providing £15 million to stimulate further the key building blocks, we can achieve our scientific entrepreneurship and incorporate enterprise long term economic ambitions and close the teaching in science and engineering curricula. productivity gap with our main competitors. Building prosperous regions and communities February 2001 saw the publication of the White Paper I We announced a £75 million incubator fund and Opportunity for all in a world of change, which outlines introduced the £50 million Innovative Clusters Fund our active industrial policy based on enterprise, skills to support the development of business clusters and and innovation. The White Paper sets out how the incubators in the English regions. Government can help businesses and individuals anticipate and respond to change: working to equip I We refocused the Regional Selective Assistance individuals with the skills, abilities and know-how they scheme towards high quality, knowledge based need; building capacity in all communities and regions projects which provide skilled jobs. to enable them to grasp opportunities; ensuring that investment occurs in the modern infrastructure needed I We awarded £15 million under the Development to allow businesses and individuals to innovate and Fund element of the Phoenix Fund to support compete; increasing the possibilities for people to innovative projects which address social exclusion by transform their ideas into successful businesses and promoting enterprise. ensuring markets operate effectively and fairly in the best interests of consumers; and strengthening European I We lifted the stricter gas consents policy and and global frameworks to maximise opportunity and introduced the UK Coal Operating Aid Scheme. wealth creation.These themes also ran through many of the Department’s other achievements over the last year. I We are investing up to £250 million in the T900 and I have highlighted a few of these below. T600 engines being developed by Rolls-Royce for the A380 (formerly A3XX) and B747X aircraft, creating 20,000 jobs in Rolls-Royce and its suppliers. 2 Foreword Trade and Industry 2001 Investing for innovation I We published the Green Paper Work and Parents: I In the White Paper Excellence and Opportunity for the Competitiveness and Choice proposing steps to give 21st century we set out the Government’s more help to parents and greater support to the commitments to ensure that science works for the businesses employing them. benefit of all, to invest in science infrastructure and leading edge research, and to encourage the I We increased the main rate for the National commercial application of science. Minimum Wage from £3.60 to £3.70 per hour, with a further increase to £4.10 per hour announced for I We launched ‘UK online for business’ to provide October 2001. help to businesses for them to succeed with e-commerce. Strengthening global connections I Trade Partners UK and Invest UK were launched as I We launched the £15 million LINK Applied operating units of British Trade International with Genomics programme, the largest LINK programme the aims of enhancing the competitiveness of ever, complemented by the new £25 million companies in the UK through overseas sales and Harnessing Genomics programme to help industry investments, and of maintaining a high level of apply this research. quality foreign direct investment. I We established the Science Research Infrastructure I We pressed ahead with European economic reform, Fund, providing an additional £1 billion science following the actions agreed at the March 2000 infrastructure investment and keeping Britain at the Lisbon Special European Summit. forefront of scientific research. The themes of the White Paper Opportunity for all in a I We published the DTI Sustainable Development world of change will set the Department’s future Strategy and contributed to a new £30 million direction.This Report describes the initiatives which I Sustainable Technologies Initiative to help businesses plan to implement to achieve the aims set out in the integrate sustainability into their processes and White Paper and to meet the challenging targets that products. we have set ourselves. Fostering enterprise I We launched the Small Business Service on 1 April 2000 to act as a strong voice for small firms at the heart of Government and improve the quality and coherence of support for small businesses. The Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP I We consulted widely on a new framework for Secretary of State for Trade and Industry supporting small businesses in the UK, leading to the launch by the Prime Minister of Think Small First – Supporting smaller businesses in the United Kingdom – a challenge for Government. I Royal Assent was obtained for the Utilities Act 2000, updating energy regulation to put consumers at the centre and establishing the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority and the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council,‘Energywatch’. I We launched Consumer Support Networks to draw together local advice and information from Trading Standards Organisations, Citizens Advice Bureaux and others. 3 Trade and Industry 2001 Rhagair Rhagair Rhagair gan yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Gwella sgiliau, galluoedd a gwybodaeth dros Fasnach a Diwydiant arbenigol I Er mwyn sicrhau bod y DU yn parhau i ddenu’r Mae hwn, fy nhrydydd Adroddiad ar Gynlluniau myfyrwyr gorau i hyfforddiant gwyddonol, rydym yn Gwariant i’r Adran Masnach a Diwydiant, yn disgrifio cynyddu’r tâl sylfaenol i fyfyrwyr PhD o £6,800 y gweithgarwch a chyraeddiadau’r Adran dros y flwyddyn flwyddyn yn 2000-01 i £9,000 yn 2003-04.