Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will publish all correspondence between (a) her, (b) Ministers or (c) officials in her Department and officials at UKRI between 30 October and 2 November.

Ministers and officials at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are in regular contact with our arm’s-length bodies and other government departments. To support effective policy development and to reduce administration, we do not routinely publish details of each of these conversations.

I refer the Hon. Member to the letter from my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology published on 28 October and the response from Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser sent on 30 October.

(https://twitter.com/michelledonelan/status/1718291791861182514; https://www.ukri.org/publications/ceo-response-to-the-open-letter-from-the-secretary-of-state/)