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Written question asked by Lord Clement-Jones (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 10 November 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 24 November 2025. It was answered by Lord Vallance of Balham (Labour) on Monday, 24 November 2025 on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Research: Databases

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) of the Data and Analytics Research Environments UK research programme; how much if any in additional funds that programme has received from non-UKRI sources; and how much of those funds were finally spent, and by which UK universities or organisations, at the end of the institutional funding chain.

Answer

The Data and Analytics Research Environments UK (DARE UK) programme is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and co-delivered by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) who jointly oversee programme delivery.

The Medical Research Council (MRC), which is part of UKRI, has provided £24.4m since 2021 to the DARE UK research programme. This was allocated from the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure (DRIC) fund. Funding has been awarded to a range of projects led by over 28 research organisations.

Details of recipient organisations are available at GtR.ukri.org.

A list of the DARE UK Early Adopters (projects supporting the testing and integration of capabilities in UK Trusted Research Environments) awarded by the DARE UK team are available at dareuk.org.uk.

Final spend figures for on-going projects will be confirmed in due course via DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) – HDR UK.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL11714
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Databases Finance Research
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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