Analysis

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Now that Parliament has finished for the summer, here is an ‘end-of-term’ round-up of all recent CaSE analysis of Government’s plans.

Following the 2025 Spending Review, CaSE takes a deeper look at the trends in R&D budget allocations to government departments and at the challenges in assessing R&D expenditure within the Ministry of Defence.

CaSE has launched two projects on immigration into the R&D sector, exploring new messaging approaches for this topic and building a cohesive evidence base of the barriers posed by current policy.

Public Opinion and Involvement Manager, Rebecca Hill, discusses how CaSE designed the survey that we’ll use to track attitudes to R&D over time.

The UK Government published its Industrial Strategy on Monday 23rd June. CaSE takes a close look at what this means for the UK research and development (R&D) sector.

CaSE’s comprehensive analysis of the measures that impact R&D announced in the 2025 Spending Review

A week on from the publication, Policy Manager Camilla d’Angelo takes a look at some of the questions that remain to be resolved and what to expect next for the Immigration White Paper.

DSIT published plans to provide long-term public funding for certain R&D activities. Policy Officer Edmund Derby looks at what has been proposed.

Policy Manager Camilla d’Angelo takes a look at what the Immigration White Paper means for attracting international R&D talent to the UK.

DSIT released an updated version of the Science and Technology Framework on the 29th April 2025. Our Policy Officer, Edmund Derby, takes a look at what has changed.

CaSE analysis of Government Expenditure on R&D (GovERD) statistics for 2023.