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Retail Trade: Planning Permission
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he expects to respond to the Competition Commission's recommendation on the introduction of a local competition test in planning regulations. [318819]
Kevin Brennan: The Government need to consider the wider implications of this recommendation alongside the Competition Commission's (CC) detailed analysis. These are complex issues. I expect to announce my response to the CC 's recommendation on introducing a competition test into the UK planning system in due course.
Science: Expenditure
Mr. Touhig: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of the UK's gross domestic product was spent on research and development in science in 2008-09; and what assessment he has made of likely trends in such expenditure in the next three financial years. [318146]
Mr. Lammy: The most recent data available are for 2007, when gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD) was 1.79 per cent. of gross domestic product.
Data for 2008 are expected to be published by the Office for National Statistics in March 2010.
The Department has made no assessment of future outturns for GERD for the period 2009-10 to 2011-12.
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