DSIT: Will the UK’s new science and tech division obtain something?

The Division for Science, Innovation and Expertise, headed by Michelle Donelan, is meant to indicate the UK authorities is critical about these fields, however a reshuffle isn’t any substitute for a transparent plan, says Kieron Flanagan

By Kieron Flanagan

The UK’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has created a brand new Division for Science, Innovation and Expertise (DSIT), seemingly placing these fields on the coronary heart of UK authorities coverage for the primary time in a long time. The transfer has been broadly welcomed by those that have known as for extra emphasis on science and expertise in authorities, however will it actually make a distinction?

A devoted division has definitely been a very long time coming. Again in 1964, the then prime minister, Harold Wilson, created the Ministry of Expertise …