Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 108850

Technology: East Midlands

Tabled: 27 January 2026

Answered: 12 February 2026

Question

Shivani Raja

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) Leicester and (b) the East Midlands benefit from national investment in emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence a

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

The Government is putting technology at the heart of our mission to grow the UK economy.We are launching a £250 million procurement to expand the AI Research Resource, giving UK researchers and businesses free access to cutting‑edge compute so every regio...

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