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Physics Research

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

508 c23-45WH 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Adam Afriyie | 508 c30WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that science was "starved" of funding. However, as the hon. Member for...

Andrew Smith | 508 c30WH (Link to this contribution) No. Of course, there has been a considerable increase in GDP as well. The figures that I am citing t...

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Adam Afriyie | 508 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am really glad that the right hon. Gentleman has raised that issue, because it is entirely in the ...

Evan Harris | 508 c27-9WH (Link to this contribution) That is right. What was disappointing about the press release and the announcement is that, in many ...

Lembit Opik | 508 c26-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful once again to my hon. Friend for giving way. Does he agree that the Minister needs to ...

Lembit Opik | 508 c29-30WH (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we have only to look at the long-term impact of the Apollo ...

Andrew Smith | 508 c29WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my fellow Oxford MP, the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris), on s...

Andrew Smith | 508 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. The difficulty of forecasting the economic impact of blue-skies research is something t...

Evan Harris | 508 c23WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to have the debate, and I am delighted that there is so much interest in it among p...

Lembit Opik | 508 c23WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does he agree that astronomy, which is the are...

Evan Harris | 508 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. The failure to capitalise on initiatives and drive them through is symptomatic of the probl...

Bob Spink | 508 c24WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that blue sky research is most important, and that it should not stall...

Evan Harris | 508 c25-6WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, who is greatly missed on the Science and Technology Committee, wher...

Speaker | 508 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on to the next debate.

Evan Harris | 508 c43-4WH (Link to this contribution) I must challenge those figures. I have never understood why Ministers choose the baseline that they ...

David Lammy | 508 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) I have the figures in front of me: first degree entrants in 2002-03, 2,990, and in 2008-09, 3,555; m...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c43WH (Link to this contribution) We were talking about straightforwardness, honesty and clarity. I am not quite sure that I heard the...

David Lammy | 508 c43WH (Link to this contribution) I said that we did not have a Save British Science campaign, which he knows that a past Administrati...

Evan Harris | 508 c42-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Minister mentioned Save British Science—now the Campaign for Science and Engin...

David Lammy | 508 c43WH (Link to this contribution) I recognise that there has been substantial investment. As the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North ...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c40-1WH (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to divert the debate to that subject, but it could take quite some time. To be abso...

Evan Harris | 508 c40WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with me that the Government's definition of the term "ring fence" is t...

David Lammy | 508 c41-2WH (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) on securing the...

Evan Harris | 508 c37-8WH (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Gentleman says about the Treasury, but someone from his party will have to sa...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c38-9WH (Link to this contribution) I noticed that when the hon. Gentleman was talking about the science budget, he used the word "hope....

Evan Harris | 508 c39-40WH (Link to this contribution) There has been a lot of debate about the meaning of "ring fence"—we have also debated that in the Se...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c40WH (Link to this contribution) That is a complicated area, because there are many different types of ring fence: parliamentary ring...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c36-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) on securing this timely an...

Evan Harris | 508 c37WH (Link to this contribution) On the subject of rhetoric, will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance that under a Conservative Gove...

Adam Afriyie | 508 c37WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising those questions. I have made it absolutely clear that we are ...

Annette Brooke | 508 c34-5WH (Link to this contribution) I take the right hon. Gentleman's point. I was just identifying how we could have approached the fis...

Andrew Smith | 508 c34WH (Link to this contribution) I have been mulling over the hon. Lady's point about the VAT cut. I put it to her that that is not a...

Annette Brooke | 508 c33-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) on securing this...

Andrew Smith | 508 c31-3WH (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Gentleman, I want science and physics to have an even fairer share. The hon. Gentlema...

Speaker | 508 c31WH (Link to this contribution) One Mr. O'Brien is younger than me and one is older than me.

Evan Harris | 508 c31WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his contribution to the debate. We often face each across this ...

Andrew Smith | 508 c31WH (Link to this contribution) I did not actually accuse the hon. Gentleman of not coming clean. What I said was that, as the Conse...

Subjects

Finance Expenditure Grants Research Student numbers Laboratories Astronomy Cuts Operating costs Physics Science and Technology Facilities Council

Contains statistics

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