Source · Select Committees · Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Recommendation 5
5
Deferred
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Publish plans for ongoing government financial support to the UK space launch sector
Recommendation
We are pleased to see the progress being made at spaceports across the country and with the pace at which SaxaVord Spaceport, which has been almost entirely privately funded, is developing. SaxaVord Spaceport is now likely to be the first spaceport ready for vertical orbital launch activities. International experience shows that spaceports usually require ongoing support from government. The Government should address how it intends to support the UK launch sector during the years ahead. It should set out, in response to this Report, whether it will provide ongoing financial support and in what form that support will take.
Government Response Summary
The government deflected from addressing financial support for the UK launch sector by referencing a letter about publishing outcomes of work on Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) by autumn.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
As set out in the letter from the Minister for Science, Research, and Innovation to the Committee of 30 May 2023, DSIT hopes to be able to publish the outcome of the work it has been doing on PNT by the autumn of this year at the latest.