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A new UK research funding agency

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 9 April 2020 to 25 June 2021. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 23 September 2020: William Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr Peter Highnam, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Dr Regina Dugan, Wellcome Leap; Dr Antoine Petit, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  • 7 October 2020: Professor Mariana Mazzucato, University College London; Professor Richard Jones, University of Manchester; Professor Sir Mark Walport, Former CEO, UK Research and Innovation (2017–2020); Jo Johnson, n/a
  • 11 November 2020: Sir John Kingman, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); Amanda Solloway, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Sarah Hodgetts, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • 17 March 2021: Dominic Cummings, Former Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister; Kwasi Kwarteng, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Jo Shanmugalingam, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy