Horizon Europe

(asked on 11th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress the Government has made on the ratification of the UK’s association with the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 19th October 2022

The UK should already be part of Horizon Europe, as agreed in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). Association to Horizon Europe remains our preference and we continue to do everything we can to secure this. That is why we entered into formal consultations with the EU under the TCA.

At the UK-EU Specialised Committee meeting on 22 September, which marked the end of the consultation period, the UK requested that the EU fulfil its obligation to finalise the UK’s association to Horizon Europe. Disappointingly, the EU continues to decline this request, despite association being a clear win-win and supported across the UK and European R+D sectors.

The UK Government is now considering next steps. Our priority is to support the UK’s world leading R&D sector and we have already outlined potential options for doing so.

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