English universities will receive an extra £100 million in quality-related (QR) research funding as part of a science support package worth almost £500 million, designed to mitigate the impact of losing access to European programmes.
In a written statement to the House of Commons published on 21 November, science minister George Freeman said the Westminster government would provide £484 million for research and innovation, which will include £200 million for UK research infrastructure, £42.1 million for nuclear fusion energy and £84 million for plasma physics research as part of the Joint European Torus (JET) Operations, which is based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire.
