£200M for science and tech
1 Apr 2019 by Evoluted New Media
Finance Minister Philip Hammond has allocated £200 million for emerging technologies as part of the Spring Budget. To assuage post-Brexit fears, the government has allocated £81 million for a new extreme photonics centre in Oxfordshire; £45 million to the European Bioinformatics Institute; and £79 million for a new supercomputer based at Edinburgh University. There will be reserve funding to keep the world's biggest fusion reactor, the Joint European Torus, in Oxfordshire. From autumn, PhD roles will also be exempt from visa caps.
