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Comprehensive Spending Review: our response, built on your input

  • Date 15 Oct 2021

Invest in UK research and innovation, support a brilliant science education and protect our environment. That’s the message from the Royal Society of Chemistry to the Chancellor ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review.

The Comprehensive Spending Review sets out the UK Government’s spending priorities for the next three years and will be presented by the Chancellor on 27 October. Ahead of the announcement we have been setting out the Royal Society Chemistry’s priorities and telling the Treasury why the chemical sciences need to be at the forefront of the economic recovery.

Writing to the Treasury, we said that the Comprehensive Spending Review must set out how the UK Government can continue to support and develop Research & Development and the chemical sciences sector at this crucial moment – through providing long-term certainty on research funding, supporting excellent chemistry education, enabling deep-tech chemistry SMEs to solve a range of problems, and investing to improve our environment.

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