Recommendation 11

We welcome the Government’s commitment to give UK ARPA independence over both operational and strategic matters. With that said, there will still be a need for appropriate Government oversight of the organisation’s operations—given that £800 million of public money has been allocated to it—but UK ARPA will require bespoke Government scrutiny arrangements to operate effectively. The Government should set out, drawing on precedents such as scrutiny of the Security Services by the Intelligence and Security Committee, how this oversight will work in practice.