Science and Technology Committee
14 July 2026
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Committee Actual start House of Lords
19:46 - 21:12
Speaker 1
Welcome to this morning's meeting of the Science and Technology Committee, where we're undertaking a one-off evidence session about UKRI. And we're very pleased to have as our witness Sir Ian Chapman, the Chief Executive of UKRI. I will start by declaring an interest.
I'm an emeritus professor of engineering at Cambridge University and have held a number of UKRI grants. So, Sir Ian, of course, as we all know, UKRI has just launched its new strategy, and you're moving from counting inputs, such as grants awarded, towards clearly defined outcomes from funding.
funding, and it's also reclassifying funding across the three buckets of discovery, applied, and growth-driving research investment. Which outcomes do you want to focus UKRI on? What timescale? And how will UKRI's behavior change to prioritize outcomes? And I suppose the next part of my question is how are you going to measure and publish what you've actually achieved?
These are all quite big questions, but as a start, would you like to consider those?
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