Ministerial role
Minister of State (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation)
Organisations:
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for:
- domestic science and research ecosystem, including university research and public sector research establishments (PSREs)
- Innovation Strategy
- international science and research
- Horizon Europe
- space sector
- life sciences
- quantum
- engineering biology
- place and levelling up
- regulation of innovation, including the Regulatory Horizon Council
- R&D People and Culture Strategy
- Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)
- Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- UK Space Agency (UKSA)
Previous holders of this role
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Andrew Griffith MP
2023 to 2024
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George Freeman MP
2023 to 2023
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George Freeman MP
2022 to 2023