Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an estimate of the number of UK based researchers who were granted funding by the EU Horizon programme and did not receive that funding in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

All successful, eligible applicants to Horizon Europe who cannot receive grant from the European Commission can receive funding, in full, under the UK government’s Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme. This means that researchers, businesses, and universities can continue their work in the UK and continue important R&D collaboration with European and international partners.

This guarantee was announced in November 2021, with 1,248 guarantee grants awarded up to the end of December 2022 and a further 300 awarded in January 2023. To date, UKRI have issued grants worth over £750 million, to be paid over a 7-year period.