Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department plans to take to support cross government research and development spending.

On March 6^th 2023, the Government launched its Science and Technology Framework, setting the government’s Science and Technology agenda up to 2030. This framework, led by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, will challenge all of government to put the UK at the forefront of global science and technology and create a coordinated cross-government approach.

Optimising public and private sector investment in research and development (R&D) is one of the framework’s 10 strands. This includes the Government’s pledge to increase public investment in R&D to £20 billion by 2024/25 - the largest increase in public R&D budget over a Spending Review period.