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A new government report has recommended that the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) should become a Research Council, created by Royal Charter, operated across all four territories of the UK and funded by the Office of Science and Technology (OST), part of the Department of Trade and Industry.
The four administrations in the UK currently have responsibility for funding research in the arts and humanities, and it is now recognised that, despite its success thus far, the current structure of the AHRB is not sustainable in the longer term. Since October 1998 the organisation has grown into an organisation with a budget of almost £70m per year with a portfolio of UK-wide programmes. When an Arts and Humanities Research Council is established, a once-and-for-all transfer of the funds will take place from current funders of AHRB - the Department for Education and Skills and the devolved administrations - to the ring-fenced budget from which the OST currently funds all Research Councils.