![]() ![]() It will invest in the judgment of able people, and it will also enjoy flexibility and a wide degree of operational freedom. It will have strategic and cultural autonomy. The new agency will be characterised by a sole focus on funding high-risk, high-reward research. I am sure that it will play a unique and exciting role in the UK’s research and development system. Building on our country’s proud history of wonderful inventions, I was particularly pleased to announce the creation of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency last month. It has shown us all the incredible benefits that breakthrough science and technology can provide. Thanks to the UK’s historic funding for research and the groundbreaking action of scientists at Oxford University, a British vaccine is once again helping us to return to a more normal life. When we consider the coronavirus that has devasted our country and the world this year and last year, Jenner’s work takes on a particular resonance. ![]() Mr Jenner essentially discovered immunisation. ![]() Friend the Member for Thornbury and Yate (Luke Hall). Members know, he was an apprentice to a surgeon in Chipping Sodbury in the constituency of my hon. He is often referred to as the father of immunology he was a British physician who created the world’s first vaccine. I am sure that many of us appreciate his work. I should like to start my remarks by drawing attention to the much-celebrated work of Edward Jenner. I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. ![]()
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