Analysis

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released new estimates of R&D spending by UK Government departments and devolved administrations in 2021.

Last week the Chancellor made a series of announcements as part of the Spring Budget 2023. Below we delve into some of the measures impacting the R&D sector.

Our policy officer Camilla d’Angelo breaks down the long-awaited Independent Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape led by Sir Paul Nurse.

The Government has published a Science and Technology Framework which contains 10 actions that the Government will focus on and sets out their vision and ongoing work for each action. We take a look at each action and offer our analysis and thoughts.

Polling shows the challenges facing research advocates—and how they could respond, writes Ben Bleasdale for Research Fortnight

There has been a lot going on in the last couple of weeks in R&D policy but the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is not yet a month old. So we’ve decided to take a closer look.

Earlier this week CaSE revealed that buried deep in an innocuous document called ‘Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23’ was the information that the former Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had surrendered £1.6bn that was allocated to Horizon Europe and Euratom association back to the Treasury.

Our policy team give their take on the formation of a new governmental Department for Science Innovation and Technology.

Last week George Freeman, the Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, gave a speech to the Onward think tank setting out the UK Government’s ‘global science strategy’. Here our policy officer, Camilla d’Angelo, takes a look at his speech and what it all might mean.

Daniel Rathbone and Camilla d’Angelo discuss the latest ONS R&D statistics, and what they might mean for policy and advocacy. The new gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) release shows that the UK has been doing much more R&D than previously thought.

In this piece our policy team analyse the recent R&D statistics released by the ONS. In a future piece we will look at the implications of these new statistics for policy and advocacy by the sector.

Executive Director Professor Sarah Main gives her report on CaSE’s activities and successes at the 2022 AGM on 15th November.