Comprehensive spending review: representation from the RSC
Summary of contents
Throughout the pandemic, we have all looked to science to provide the answers, and science has delivered time and time again. The sector has shown the importance of investing in long-term research funding, science education, infrastructure and innovation, to help create a resilient UK. The chemical sciences can be found at the forefront of delivering the Covid recovery, from working on vaccines and testing to innovating new technologies supporting net zero and leading the charge on sustainability.
As the nation faces the fiscal realities of the pandemic the chemical sciences have an important role to play in a green economic recovery. This submission proposes specific and targeted timely investments to enable that and support the Government’s ambition of securing the UK’s position as a “Science Superpower".