No. 48 of Session 2005-06 22 June 2006
RESEARCH COUNCIL INSTITUTES
EVIDENCE SESSION
The Science and Technology Committee will hold its first evidence session in this inquiry on Wednesday 28 June when evidence will be heard from:
Professor Julia Goodfellow CBE, Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council
Professor Alan Thorpe, Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council
The session will take place in Committee Room 8 at 9.30am.
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Notes to editors:
Under the terms of Standing Order No. 152 the Science and Technology Committee is empowered to examine the “expenditure, policy and administration of the Office of Science and Technology and its associated public bodies”. The Committee was appointed on 19 July 2005.
This inquiry was announced on 22 March 2006 in Press Notice No28 of session 2005-06. http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitech220306.cfm
Further evidence sessions will be held in the Autumn
Committee Membership
Mr Phil Willis (Lib Dem, Harrogate and Knaresborough)(Chairman)
Adam Afriyie (Con, Windsor)
Mr Robert Flello (Lab, Stoke-on-Trent South)
Mr Jim Devine (Lab, Livingston)
Dr Evan Harris (Lib Dem, Oxford West & Abingdon)
Dr Brian Iddon (Lab, Bolton South East)
Margaret Moran (Lab, Luton South)
Mr Brooks Newmark (Con, Braintree)
Anne Snelgrove (Lab/Co-op, South Swindon)
Bob Spink (Con, Castle Point)
Dr Desmond Turner (Lab, Brighton Kemptown)