Transparency data: Council for Science and Technology: meeting summary, June 2025
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Lord David Willetts, Chair, Regulatory Innovation Office
Jim Foudy, Deputy Director, Regulatory Innovation Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
CST members discussed the following current projects and future topics of advice for government:
CST wrote to the Prime Minister on primary prevention in healthcare on 12 May. Members thanked King’s Health Partners for providing evidence to support recommendations. Members agreed to follow up with government officials to support implementation.
Members reflected on CST advice over the past four years on access to scale up finance. Members agreed to conclude advice on access to finance, giving government time to act on CST’s previous recommendations.
Members agreed to continue to advise on the government’s digital and data agenda, including on the National Data Library, Industrial Strategy delivery, and semantic interoperability.
Members agreed to provide advice on UK priorities for semiconductors and AI chip design.
Members agreed to scope advice on the future UK R&D landscape, and climate, energy security and resilience.
Members welcomed the establishment of Regulation Innovation Office (RIO) and discussed the following themes:
Continue to centre innovators in RIO’s approach and lead a shift to place more onus on the regulators to create a system that works for innovators, particularly small companies.
Develop a ‘one-stop-shop’ and/or clearer pathways for innovators who currently struggle to work across several regulators.
Going forward, RIO could work to join-up sandboxes and follow through to ensure lessons learnt from sandboxes lead to changes in regulatory approaches.
The UK could learn from innovative regulatory approaches in other countries, including digital governance in Estonia, regulatory labs in Denmark and the Netherlands, regulatory roadmaps in Canada, and testing approaches in Finland and South Korea.
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