Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to page 38 of her Department's publication entitled, Government’s response to the Independent Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape, published November 2023, for what reason her Department plans to wait until early 2024 to respond to the 2022 Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy.

The Government is committed to addressing the issues set out in the Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy. Since the review was published last year, the government has worked with the sector to produce a government response which is in the final stages before publication. In the meantime, government departments and funding bodies have begun implementing many of the Review’s recommendations and taking practical steps to reduce bureaucracy in the research system