Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry A new UK research funding agency

Witnesses Dominic Cummings, Former Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng (Secretary of State at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), and Jo Shanmugalingam (Director General for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Inquiry A new UK research funding agency

Witnesses Sir John Kingman (Chair at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)), Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser (Chief Executive at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)), Amanda Solloway (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), and Sarah Hodgetts (Deputy Director for UKRI Sponsorship and Advanced Research Projects Agency at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Inquiry A new UK research funding agency

Witnesses William Bonvillian (Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dr Peter Highnam (Deputy Director at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Dr Regina Dugan (Chief Executive Officer at Wellcome Leap), and Dr Antoine Petit (Chairman and CEO at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

Inquiry A new UK research funding agency

Witnesses Professor Mariana Mazzucato (Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London), Professor Richard Jones (Chair in Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at University of Manchester), Professor Sir Mark Walport, Former CEO, UK Research and Innovation (2017–2020), and Jo Johnson (Former Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation (2016-2018 and July-September 2019) at n/a)