Wednesday 13th September 2023

(1 year, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Camrose Portrait Viscount Camrose (Con)
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At this time, the Government are not re-associating with Erasmus, instead relying on their innovative Turing programme.

Lord Trees Portrait Lord Trees (CB)
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My Lords, as someone who has previously benefited from research support from Horizon, I join others in warmly welcoming this. Does the Minister agree that Horizon has been extremely important not only in strengthening research capability between the UK and continental Europe, and between the East and West, but between the north and south—Europe and the global South—which is hugely important strategically in areas such as health security, biosecurity, pandemic preparedness and climate change?

Viscount Camrose Portrait Viscount Camrose (Con)
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I am very happy to agree. The work done collectively across all programmes in the last Horizon cut across 163 countries and created 237,000 collaborative links—although quite what that means I am not sure. To me, it paints a picture of a global, highly collaborative, shared investigative approach to probing the great scientific problems of our time.