Science budget cuts would be a disaster, MPs to tell George Osborne

Committee to warn that vital research is suffering after funding freeze, sending it below that of industrial competitors

George Osborne will get a reprimand this week from an all-party committee over his handling of the country's funding of science.

Britain's 4.7bn science budget has been frozen in cash terms for the past five years and has slumped to a level well below that of most of our industrial competitors, including Germany and the US, MPs will warn.