Ministers must set out remit of ‘high risk’ research funder – MPs

Plans for new research funding agency expected to go ahead despite exit of former top adviser to PM, but mission yet to be defined

23 November

Key issues on mission, leadership and position of ‘Arpa’ agency within wider system yet to be decided, MPs told

11 November

Jo Johnson tells MPs that new research funding agency could damage rest of system if allowed to be an ‘island’ in Cabinet Office

7 October

Debate over status of new agency for ‘high-risk, high-payoff research’ is non-issue compared with its direction and leadership, others suggest

5 February

Science and Technology Committee says ‘Arpa’ may be most effective if set up outside UK Research and Innovation