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We at Wellcome Trust have joined many UK science organisations in signing a letter to the chancellor ahead of the budget at the end of the month. It is crucial that the UK has stable, predictable investment in R&D, not wasteful stop-start funding. At a time when the government is rightly seeking to grow investment in the UK, I hope to see it doubling down on support for science, not pulling back from it. Science has so much to offer us: to grow the economy, to create jobs, and ultimately, to improve health and lives in the UK and around the world.