Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current position in negotiations for the UK'sĀ associate membership of the Horizon Europe Programme; and what steps they are intending to take in order to protect the position of UK academics who have been awarded research grants by the European Research Council.
It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Lord.