Select Committee on Science and Technology
No. 60 of Session 2006-07
10 October 2007
EVIDENCE SESSION
SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS RELATING TO THE ABORTION ACT 1967
The Science and Technology Committee will hold its first evidence session in this inquiry on Monday 15 October at 4.15pm in Committee Room 8 when evidence will be heard from:
At 4.15pm:
Jane Fisher, Director, Antenatal Results and Choices;
Professor Maria Fitzgerald, University College London;
Dr Kate Guthrie, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare;
Professor Neil Marlow, President, British Association of Perinatal Medicine; and
Professor John Wyatt, University College London
At 5.00pm:
Professor Patricia Casey, University College, Dublin;
Dr Ellie Lee, University of Kent;
Professor Jane Norman, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists;
Dr Chris Richards, Newcastle University; and
Dr Sam Rowlands, Warwick Medical School;
For further information please call Ana Ferreira, on 020 7219 2793.
Previous press notices and publications are available on our website, http://www.parliament.uk/s&tcom/
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 20 June 2007 in Press notice No 45 of session 2006-07 http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitech200607.cfm
Membership of the Committee
Mr Phil Willis (Lib Dem, Harrogate and Knaresborough)(Chairman)
Adam Afriyie (Con, Windsor)
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Con, Mid Bedfordshire)
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)
Dr Bob Spink (Con, Castle Point)
Mr Graham Stringer (Lab, Manchester, Blackley)
Dr Desmond Turner (Lab, Brighton Kemptown)
