Dr. Ruth Freeman:

I do not have the data on the rural-urban divide. We see a socioeconomic gap so that may well feed into that. On the indirect costs of research, education and public engagement programmes, at the moment we give approximately a 30% overhead to universities when we are funding research there, which is supplemented by the block grant for research given through the HEA. HEIs indicate that does not fully cover the cost of the research they undertake. That is challenging in maintaining the world-class infrastructure for research in place. When funding education and public engagement programmes, we do not currently provide that overhead. That is something we are considering in opening up access to those programmes. Not to overemphasise it, but it comes down to the funding available.