Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of the war in Ukraine on research collaboration with Russian institutions.

The Government has announced that it will not support any new publicly funded research collaborations with Russia. Existing research projects with Russian involvement are paused. I have commissioned an assessment, on top of the existing and strong due diligence processes of UK public research funders, to isolate and freeze activities which benefit the Russian regime.

The Government is also funding a £3 million package of support for Ukrainian researchers at risk.