One more time around the sun - is UK space tech policy concerted strategy or an annual talking shop?
Once a year, the Westminster Forums conference organization debates space technology and the UK’s policy and role in that market. Sometimes the discussion has come under the eForum heading, when the focus has been on satellites and communications, and sometimes it has fallen under Energy, Environment, and Transport. But this month, as in 2025, the Forums hosted the event under the Business Policy banner.
One reason, perhaps, is that last August, the British Government announced that the UK Space Agency, though it was retaining its name, would cease to exist as an independent entity, and would instead be merged with the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT).
It’s a matter of opinion whether that was an example of joined-up thinking, governance, and management in Whitehall – DSIT already provided the Agency’s funding, after all – or it was more a desperate cost-cutting measure. But suffice to say that the...
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