UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is an arm’s-length body of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). With a total annual budget of £9.6bn in 2023/24, UKRI is the UK’s largest public funder of research and innovation. Government considers R&D and new technologies to be vital to the UK’s future and major policy goals …
| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
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| 41st Report - UK Research and Innovation | HC 826 | 23 Jul 2025 | 30 | Responded |
UKRI must also balance meeting the UK’s longer and shorter-term research and innovation needs when deciding where to allocate funding. It faces an inherent tension in allocating funding with government priorities in mind, while not stifling the innovation needed for future R&D.11 Professor Boyle felt that UKRI also has role …
DSIT told us that it asks UKRI to work closely with departments, such as the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, ensure governmental R&I work is joined up.14 The NAO found 105 government policy papers across 13 ministerial departments in the …
DSIT and UKRI advised us that private sector investment in UK R&I was £46.7 billion in 2024.27 We asked whether private investment in UK R&I has gone up or down in recent years. DSIT advised that it is going up, but that due to a correction to the ONS data …
In correspondence following the session, DSIT stated that UKRI’s investment in Quantum Hubs has generated 17 spinout companies to date, 14 of which are still active. Similarly, DSIT wrote that UKRI has invested over £700m in synthetic biology R&I since 2007, including £115m into the Synthetic Biology for Growth Programme …
DSIT stressed that specific skills are needed to turn research into commercial success.78 Professor Grant told us that UKRI plays a much bigger role than people realise in building the skills of people who move from research into industry.79 UKRI told us it has done a lot of work to …
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| 5 Jun 2025 | Alexandra Jones · Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS · UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Professor Paul Boyle CBE · Swansea University, Sarah Munby · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Siobhan Peters · UKRI, Sir David Grant CBE | View ↗ |
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| 23 Feb 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation relating to the C… |
| 1 Dec 2025 | To cttee | Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Energy Security & Net… |