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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, Amendments 180 and 180A seek to require the Secretary of State to conduct a review of existing legislation and how it relates to certain animal welfare offences and,…12 Jul 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyI thank the noble Lord for his vote of confidence. It is a new kind of organisation that will invest with a high-risk appetite to shoot for outcomes that are bold, substantive and…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyLet me start by thanking the noble Viscount for raising the Question about this exciting organisation and for helpfully expressing his enthusiasm for it. He asked a range of…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyWhether we reassociate to Horizon or go down the Pioneer alternative, ARIA is designed to be complementary to those programmes. It has a higher tolerance of risk and seeks more…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyARIA’s initial focus has been on attracting world-class talent to create transformative programmes and on developing the organisation’s investment strategy. The Government have…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyIndeed—again, the point is well taken. We cannot have these types of organisations existing in separate universes and not talking to each other. It is crucial that they exploit…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyI very much accept the thrust of the noble Lord’s point, which is that nationally we perhaps have more of a tendency to invent than to commercialise. As much as anything else,…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyQuickly on Horizon, which we debated quite fully yesterday, I am unable, since yesterday, to provide any further information, I am afraid. Where appropriate, reports from ARIA…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyDecisions about what areas to investigate, what projects to finance and what activities to conduct sit wholly within the management and directorship of ARIA. That is the way the…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyUniquely for a partnering organisation with the Government, ARIA is not subject to FoI because it is designed to be a small organisation. Laying on it the burden of FoI…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyIndeed. As set out in the ARIA Act, ARIA is required to observe three principles that come under the broad heading of innovation: contributing to the economic growth of the UK;…29 Jun 2023HANSARDAdvanced Research and Innovation AgencyIndeed. As far as the timing goes, ARIA was legally established on 25 January. The focus has been on recruiting the right people. It is a small organisation, designed to be lean…29 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeIndeed, and the Government recognise very strongly the benefits of collaboration not merely with the EU 27 but globally. The range of benefits includes not just academic benefits…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeAs I have said, the Government’s preferred position is to associate to the Horizon programme. As to what we are doing about it, we are negotiating purposefully with the EU to…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeIndeed. As all noble Lords would expect, a very detailed and comprehensive value analysis has taken place as part of the current ongoing negotiations to associate with the Horizon…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank my noble friend for making that important point. When talking about Horizon, we often slip into the language of concerning ourselves only with collaborations with the…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeMy Lords, I would like nothing more than to give a definitive date by which a decision will be made one way or the other. The negotiations are ongoing and at a mature stage, with…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeYes, I very much take the point that scientific research does not take place over intervals of seven years but is a long-term undertaking and an important endeavour. Certainly,…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI take the point, but I am not sure there was a question there for me to answer.28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeIndeed. As the specific analysis for association to the Horizon Europe programme is currently being negotiated, I cannot comment on what the analysis is there. I can say that,…28 Jun 2023