STFC said it was forecasting costs to exceed its flat budget, which meant that a savings programme was required to balance its budget by 2030.<\/p>\n
“After extensive consultation with the research community, we are preparing to detail how we will achieve financial sustainability while protecting world leading science and delivering the greatest long term impact.”<\/p>\n
The proposals have prompted North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan to meet groups who are concerned about potential impact on them.<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat Morgan has also met with world-leading physicist Prof Brian Cox, who warned that the cuts could be as high \u00a3162m, roughly 30% of particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics research.<\/p>\n
“There’s a real concern that the researchers that use those radio telescopes will be the people that get the chop,” Morgan said.<\/p>\n
“That equipment will fall out of use, and we’ll lose all that talent and all that kind of world-leading research from Britain.”<\/p>\n
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North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan met Prof Brian Cox when he visited the Houses of Parliament in June [Helen Morgan MP]<\/p>\n
She added that the centre in Shropshire is important for innovations and for keeping future generations of nuclear physicists in the UK.<\/p>\n
“[This is] where the ground-breaking research into nuclear physics and things that have proper application in the real world comes from.<\/p>\n
“There is a lot of competing technologies out there, lots of focus on AI technology in the government’s stated announcements.”<\/p>\n
She added: “At a time when we face major global challenges and fierce international competition, this is precisely the wrong moment to cut investment in discovery science.”<\/p>\n
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