Question follow-through · 24980
Science and Technology Facilities Council: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of funding cuts to the Science Technology and Facilities Council on the UK's leadership in research and development.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of funding cuts to the Science Technology and Facilities Council on the UK's leadership in research and development.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
UK Research and Innovation and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have completed an evidence-based prioritisation exercise and published the resulting decisions. The process considered a range of funding scenarios across STFC's portfolio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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