Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 19
16th Report - UK Research and Innovation: Investment in research infrastructure
Published 21 Oct 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Investment in research infrastructure All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Several of the organisations which sent us written evidence observed that UKRI research councils and government departments do not always take a sufficiently joined-up approach. This can leave research infrastructure that serves multiple disciplines and user communities without a clear route to access funding.38 For example, the Wellcome Trust told us that funding for the long-term operating costs of the electron bio-imaging centre at the Diamond Light Source, which uses very intense beams of light to study atoms and molecules, has fallen between organisational boundaries.39
From: Public Accounts Committee, 16th Report - UK Research and Innovation: Investment in research infrastructure (HC 104), 21 October 2026
Government response
Government response awaited: deadline 21 December 2026.