Rejected petition Ensure Science Funding lost from the EU is replaced by government.

Investment in science is intrinsically linked to a growing economy(1). To protect science from any reduction in funds upon leaving the EU, this petition proposes safeguards be put into legislature that ensure increases in the funding of science research, at least to the level of EU funding lost.

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1. J. Haskel, A. Hughes and E. Bascavusoglu-Moreau, The Economic Significance of the U.K. Science Base, UK-IRC, 2014

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/135670

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Date submitted 27 June 2016
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