Clause 2 - ARIA’s functions

Part of Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:10 pm on 31 January 2022.

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Photo of Graham Stringer Graham Stringer Labour, Blackley and Broughton 7:10, 31 January 2022

The Minister is being admirably blunt about keeping interfering Ministers and officials from controlling or influencing ARIA, but there is also influence from the scientific establishment, which has its own programmes and would like the sums of money in ARIA to go to them. Given the structure of the board, is he satisfied that ARIA will maintain its independence not just from the civil service and Ministers, but from the scientific establishment?