{"id":359377,"date":"2025-08-20T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:13:13","slug":"uk-scraps-independent-space-agency-in-bid-to-cut-red-tape-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359377\/","title":{"rendered":"UK scraps independent space agency in bid to cut red tape \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space Minister Chris Bryant said the decision would result in \u201cmuch greater integration and focus\u201d while \u201cmaintaining the scientific expertise and the immense ambition of the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2010, the organization currently operates as an executive agency of DSIT.<\/p>\n<p>The folding of the agency is part of a push by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Whitehall chief Pat McFadden to review arms-length bodies across government with a view to \u201crooting out unnecessary bureaucracy and duplication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was published alongside 60 recommendations from industry leaders on how to improve regulation for space missions, which the government said were \u201ckey\u201d to unlocking a market estimated to be worth \u00a32.7 billion by 2031.<\/p>\n<p>It added that with the \u201cright support,\u201d the U.K. space industry could capture a quarter of the global market for in-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>While the move was praised by several industry leaders, space scientist Dr Simeon Barber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gmjm8z47jo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the BBC<\/a> that the move \u201cseems like a backward step\u201d and could result in Britain\u2019s space sector \u201closing focus\u201d at a time when other countries are establishing national space agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Agency boss Paul Bate welcomed the decision, saying that a \u201csingle unit with a golden thread through strategy, policy and delivery\u201d would make it \u201cfaster and easier to translate the nation\u2019s space goals into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Space Minister Chris Bryant said the decision would result in \u201cmuch greater integration and focus\u201d while \u201cmaintaining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,39794,2438,393,4884,806,1144,126430,2443,712,413,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-359377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chris-bryant","11":"tag-department","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-industry","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-paul-bate","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061038028493731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}