UK Research and Innovation

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 26 Mar 2025 Closed: 22 Sep 2025 Parliament page
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 … Read more
10 Recommendations
20 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 6 events
23 Feb
2026
Correspondence
1 Dec
2025
Correspondence
15 Oct
2025
Report published
23 Jul
2025
Report published
5 Jun
2025
Oral evidence
5 Jun
2025
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
5 Jun 2025
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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
Title HC No. Published Items Response
41st Report - UK Research and Innovation HC 826 23 Jul 2025 30 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
Clear
30 Conclusion Acknowledged
41st Report - UK Research and Inno…
Universities face significant financial challenges threatening R&D due to declining international student fees.
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
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.
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Government Response AI assessment · 26 of 10 classified
Accepted 24
Acknowledged 1
Not Addressed 1
Total 10 recs + 20 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
23 Feb 2026 To committee Letter from the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation relating to the Committee’s Forty-first Report on UK Research and Innovation, 17 February 2026
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1 Dec 2025 To committee Letter from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero relating to an update on Treasury Minute 79, Support for innovation to deliver net zero, 19 November 2025
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