Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee

41st Report - UK Research and Innovation

Public Accounts Committee HC 826 Published 23 July 2025

Report Status

Government responded

Conclusions & Recommendations

30 items (11 recs)

Source

View on Parliament website ↗

Government Response

AI assessment · 30 of 30 classified

Accepted 26

Acknowledged 1

Not Addressed 3

Government response

Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forty-first report from Session 2024-26 · published 15 Oct 2025

Read the government response ↗ Response on the Index

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item

30 Conclusion Acknowledged

Universities face significant financial challenges threatening R&D due to declining international student fees.

Conclusion

We asked whether our witnesses had concerns that some universities are running into funding difficulties, which could seriously impair research and innovation. Professor Boyle told us that there is an extremely difficult financial environment at present in the university sector … Read more

Government Response Summary

The government acknowledged the concerns about university funding difficulties, stating DSIT will consider the impact on financial sustainability when deciding UKRI allocations and uses analyses to understand the challenges universities face.

HM Treasury

View Details →