Autumn Statement: What does £2bn mean?
In the 2016 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced £2bn for research funding by 2020. We find out what that means in context.
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The Science Budget Inquiry
Professor Brian Cox has tells Parliament that continued flat-cash for science would be ‘dire’, as others lament ‘inconsistent, opaque’ data on funding.
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Letter from David Willetts: Auditing science spending
We wrote to David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, about the lack of official data on public-funded science in the UK.
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Research is Great, but investment is declining
BIS says that the UK is an international bastion of highly efficient science, but new ONS statistics find that UK investment in research fell in 2011–12.
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Government departments slash research
The government is under renewed pressure over its swingeing cuts to research, with departments such as Education cutting research budgets by over 50%.
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SET statistics: departmental cuts masked by budgeting
The UK Government’s 2013 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Statistics reveal astonishing reductions in certain departmental research budgets.