The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 (c. 4) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
It was introduced in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng on 2 March 2021.
[1] Former adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, is credited with inspiring the Government to push forward with this policy.
[2] Cummings was called in front of the Science and Technology Select Committee's inquiry into the plans for ARIA.
[3] The SNP's Business spokesperson Stephen Flynn and Labour's Shadow Minister for Science, Research and Digital Chi Onwurah pushed an amendment to a division that would have changed the primary objective of ARIA to focus on net-zero technologies.