No. 40 of Session 2006-07 22 May 2007
EVIDENCE SESSION
INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS
The Science and Technology Committee will hold its second evidence session in this inquiry on Wednesday 6 June at 9.30am in Committee Room 8 when evidence will be heard from:
At 9.30am
Professor Stuart Palmer, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick
Professor Alan Jenkins, Director of the Water Science Programme, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
At 10.15am
Professor Lorna Casselton FRS, Foreign Secretary and Vice-President
Dr Bernie Jones, Head of International Policy, The Royal Society
Dr Lloyd Anderson, Director, Science, The British Council
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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 Innovation and its associated public bodies". The Committee was appointed on 19 July 2005.
This inquiry was announced on 5 March 2007 in Press notice
No 22 of session 2006-07
The Committee held an evidence session on Wednesday 9 May when evidence was heard from Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council, Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council, Professor Keith Mason, Chief Executive, Science and Technology Facilities Council, and Dr Randal Richards, Acting Chief Executive, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Membership of the Committee
Mr Phil Willis (Lib Dem, Harrogate and Knaresborough)(Chairman)
Adam Afriyie (Con, Windsor)
Mr Robert Flello (Lab, Stoke-on-Trent South)
Linda Gilroy (Lab/Co-op, Plymouth Sutton)
Dr Evan Harris (Lib Dem, Oxford West & Abingdon)
Dr Brian Iddon (Lab, Bolton South East)
Chris Mole (Lab, Ipswich)
Mr Brooks Newmark (Con, Braintree)
Graham Stringer (Lab, Manchester, Blackley)
Bob Spink (Con, Castle Point)
Dr Desmond Turner (Lab, Brighton Kemptown)