Research Councils UK (RCUK) today (13 July) released the report of the e-Infrastructure Advisory Group. It sets out the findings and recommendations of the e-Infrastructure Advisory Group into the activities and recommendations put forward by the 2009 RCUK International Review of e-Science and the 2010 report Delivering the UK’s e-Infrastructure for Research and Innovation.
The Advisory Group has suggested an outline structure for the future of an integrated e-infrastructure and recommends that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) take forward the implementation of a strategy to achieve this.
Chaired by BIS, membership of the group was made up of representatives from RCUK, Wellcome Trust, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DELNI), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and Universities UK.
A full copy of the Report can be found here 
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- Medical Research Council (MRC);
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC);
- Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC).