
Equality statistics are published and a panel discusses how R&D can help UK productivity
When Andrew Griffith was appointed science minister in prime minister Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle this week, he vowed to “unleash capital” to support UK research.
How far this is what the UK economy needs and how far the country’s disappointing productivity is down to something else came under discussion last night at an event held jointly by two think tanks: the Resolution Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Technology.