Speeches by Freeman.
Every Hansard contribution by George Freeman this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 41–60 of 185 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Is that across all sectors?” | 5 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “But do we know what the number is? Some £9 billion a year goes through UKRI—” | 16 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Can I just follow up? I want to understand what that number is.” | 13 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “It sounds like February ’26.” | 5 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Paul, can I ask you the same question, particularly in the light of the announcement by Minister Patrick Vallance of three pillars? He wants to focus on blue sky, industrial sovereign capabilities and growth. What are the first, second and third things that you think the new leadership team should focus on?” | 52 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Is it a within 12 months’ achievement, or a within a few years’ achievement?” | 14 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “That is good to hear. It might be interesting to invite you to come back with a digital presentation of what the new landscape looks like, when you are ready. Will that be within the year?” | 36 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “On the data, do we know what that number is? Do we know what private investment we get?” | 18 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “You are being typically polite, but your review, and the Tickell review on bureaucracy that I commissioned, highlighted massive problems from the Treasury to DSIT, from DSIT to UKRI, and from UKRI down. How confident are you today that those problems are all sorted? Or would you say to the new leaders, “No, they’re par…” | 64 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “That is very exciting. As a trade and investment envoy, is that a tool that would help us—me—to sell UK R&D internationally to investors? As you remember from when we used to work on this, it is not very easy if you are a sovereign wealth fund in Asia-Pacific or the middle east saying, “I want to put a billion into the…” | 90 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “As you know, David, that was one of the reasons why I was worried when I came back into Government in ’21. UKRI had evolved as an academic funding body, and to rise to meet that global challenge we needed a more agile, strategic, national, sovereign, global, international mission. As the new Government, new Ministers a…” | 122 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “From a UKRI point of view, give us a sector where you would say, “There’s a sector where we have huge academic leadership but we are not commercialising it.” What is the best example?” | 34 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “I have a very specific question. Do you track, either within UKRI or in DSIT, the gap between areas where we are really strong scientifically—let’s take agritech, an area I know well, or the plant science area you are distinguished in, where we invest about half a billion a year in grain science with the Biotechnology …” | 133 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “ERP?” | 1 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “I should perhaps declare an interest as a poacher turned gamekeeper, or gamekeeper turned poacher. I am a former Minister for Science and the deputy chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. For full disclosure, I am a UK trade and investment envoy in the Asia Pacific, I chair two APPGs—the parl…” | 299 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Alex, you have played a huge part in developing the industrial strategy, historically and now. UKRI is going to be key to that, because we are going to be asking them, “How are you doing in supporting the industrial strategy?”” | 40 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Six? Ten?” | 2 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Thank you, Sarah. That is a well-made point. Ottoline, as you will soon leave UKRI, may I ask you to reflect on the progress that you have made in implementing the Grant review recommendations, and on the point about data and accountability? Would you describe UKRI as amber, or coming from amber to green? Where is it o…” | 60 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “Given your experience of this, what would be the three top flashing KPIs that you would encourage the new leadership team to consider, if you said, “Yes, there are 500, but these are the three that I would really focus on to get this organisation into a globally competitive space”?” | 50 |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 826) “You get my point: if we are in a global race for investment money, we have to be able to encourage you and your successor not to be embarrassed about answering the question, but to say, “Yeah, the truth is, we are going down in the rankings because you guys have to sort out the visas or you have to sort out something e…” | 64 |