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This agreement between the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Scottish Government, and the Welsh Government, on the independence of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, arose as a result of the ARIA Act 2022.

The agreement commits all parties to protecting the principles of strategic autonomy, operational autonomy and minimal bureaucracy.

The previous Northern Ireland Executive agreed in principle to the signing of this MOU and it is intended that formal assent will be sought from the incoming Executive following the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly on 5 May 2022.