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UK science spend ‘not sensible’

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Increases in the British government's spending on fundamental science are being funded by cuts to research in more directly applicable areas, a cross-party group of members of parliament (MPs) warned this week. They said that “a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul is neither sensible nor sustainable”.

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