Government spending on science and technology as a percentage of GDP has been decreasing for more than a decade and has fallen again in 2014-15, the Office for National Statistics has said.
Public spending on science fell from 0.62 per cent of GDP in 2014 to 0.6 per cent in 2015, ONS figures released on 15 June showed. It has been declining since 2003, when spending on science was 0.9 per cent of GDP.
Andrew Steele, a computational biologist at the Francis Crick Institute and chairman of the campaign group Science is Vital, said the downwards trend was “genuinely concerning”.
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