In recommendation 21 (paragraph 120) the Committee requests details of UKRI’s equality strategy and the timescale for publication. The Government is working closely with UKRI on equality, diversity and inclusion issues across the research and innovation sector. UK Research and Innovation strongly endorses the report’s focus on the central importance of equality diversity and inclusion in research and innovation. UKRI is committed to creating the culture required to support systemic and lasting change in equality, diversity and inclusion. Open data are an essential tool for identifying and understanding where and how we can most effectively target interventions, and for monitoring whether our interventions are effective. UKRI published harmonised diversity data in June and detailed aggregated ethnicity data in December. The publication of data and analysis is part of their ongoing work to drive transformative change both at UKRI and more widely across the system. Alongside the data analysis in December, UKRI also provided an update (via the UKRI website) on some of their work to date and their near-term activities. UKRI is developing a full EDI strategy in conjunction with the wider People and Culture strategy being developed by BEIS. The UKRI strategy is set to be published in early Summer as part of that people and culture work.