Chris asks government to get serious about economic growth

5 Nov 2025

The Chancellor and I agree that public R&D is one of the main economic levers for the government to raise growth, but the government is not significantly increasing it over the next five years. I asked her that if the government is serious about growth, why isn’t it increasing public R&D significantly?

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