The science budget inquiry

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 7 July 2015 to 19 January 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

First Report - The science budget (9 November 2015)
4th Special Report - The science budget: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2015-16 (19 January 2016)

Evidence sessions

15 July 2015: Jo Johnson MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, Gareth Davies, Director General, Knowledge and Innovation, and Philippa Lloyd, Director General, People and Strategy, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Sir Paul Nurse, President, The Royal Society, Professor Richard Parker, Chair, Research and Secondments Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Stern of Brentford, President, British Academy, and Professor Sir John Tooke, President, Academy of Medical Sciences
8 September 2015: Dr Ruth McKernan, Chief Executive, Innovate UK, and Martyn Sené, Deputy Director and Operations Director, National Physical Laboratory; David Sweeney, Director (Research, Education and Knowledge Exchange), Higher Education Funding Council for England, Professor Rick Rylance, Executive Group Chair, and Professor Philip Nelson, Executive Group Chair-elect, Research Councils UK.
15 September 2015: Professor Graeme Reid, Chair of Science and Research Policy, University College London, Naomi Weir, Acting Director, Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), and Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive, Universities UK; Professor Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Government Office for Science; Professor Brian Cox
13 October 2015: Joseph Johnson MP, Minister for Universities and Science, and Gareth Davies, Director General, Knowledge and Innovation, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Bernard Ross, Chief Executive Officer, Sky Medical Technology Ltd, James Bromley, Chief Operations Officer, SwiftKey, and Dr Paul Beasley, Head of Research and Development UK, Siemens