Addressing the Commons, Reynolds said: “The Prime Minister and I have been clear that Jodrell Bank has a secure future.”<\/p>\n
He said there had been a “science-based decision” to move from e-Merlin to the Square Kilometre Array, an intergovernmental project headquartered at Jodrell Bank, but largely built in Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n
He was responding to Green MP Hannah Spencer, who said the closure of telescope would put jobs at risk.<\/p>\n
“Many of us went there on school trips as kids, and the Prime Minister assured us that his government will find a funding solution,” the Gorton and Denton MP said.<\/p>\n
“So will the Secretary of State explain how the government intends to honour this heartfelt commitment and secure Jodrell Bank’s long-term future as an active sovereign scientific facility?”<\/p>\n
Reynolds said he recognised the strength of feeling, adding: “It’s important, given that we have a very significant research and development budget in the UK, that scientific decisions are made on the basis of the science.<\/p>\n
“But that still doesn’t mean there isn’t a future for Jodrell Bank as an asset.<\/p>\n
“That is consistent with making sure we’re making science-based decisions on the prioritisation of that funding.<\/p>\n
“I met with the University of Manchester just a few days ago about this, and the local MPs of the area have been incredibly supportive in finding a solution.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addressing the Commons, Reynolds said: “The Prime Minister and I have been clear that Jodrell Bank has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}