Oral Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
“If he will make it his policy to establish an academy for mathematical sciences.”
Tabled: 19 December 2024Answered: 8 January 2025
Asked by
Jack Rankin
Conservative — Windsor
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Peter Kyle)
The Government are committed to increasing the research and development allocation to a record £20.4 billion in 2024-25. Lord Vallance continues to meet mathematical science representatives to determine how best to support the sector. The Government are supporting the mathematical science sector in ways that best deliver for the taxpayer, without the time and expense required to set up a new organisation.