Academies

(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to attract academics from overseas to settle in the UK.


Answered by
Lord Vallance of Balham Portrait
Lord Vallance of Balham
Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 8th July 2025

The Immigration White Paper reaffirms the government’s commitment to attracting top talent by simplifying the Global Talent visa and increasing the number of people arriving on high talent routes. The government has launched a new £54 million Global Talent Fund to bring around 10 leading researchers and their teams to the UK and invested £25 million in new Turing AI ‘Global’ fellowships. In addition, £150 million and £250 million endowment funding was allocated respectively in 2023/24 for the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Green Future Fellowships and the Royal Society’s Faraday Discovery Fellowships.

A new Global Talent Taskforce has been announced to attract exceptional talent into our Industrial Strategy sectors.

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