Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Greg Clark Excerpts
Wednesday 14th June 2023

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Select Committee.

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells) (Con)
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On 30 December 2020, during the pandemic, the then Prime Minister met the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and promised £150 million in funding for the university’s pandemic sciences institute. In evidence to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this morning, the institute’s director Sir Peter Horby said that not a penny of that money has been received. Will the Secretary of State meet me to see how we can unblock that so that this vital work continues?

Chloe Smith Portrait Chloe Smith
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Yes, I would be happy to meet the Chair of the Select Committee.