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Whether additional funding is being sought by the Health and Safety Commission; and whether an increase in the numbers of inspectors and the amount of preventative work, and improvements in the commission's scientific capacity will assist the cost-effective safety regulation of the railways (taking into account the self-regulating role of...

Asked by
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 November 2003
Reference
654 c281WA; HL 5371
House
House of Lords

What steps they are taking to ensure that there is a continuing supply of nuclear scientists and engineers necessary both to maintain the skills base of the nuclear industry and of its regulator, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, and to underpin the credibility of the nuclear option [HL 3403].

Asked by
Lord Jenkin of Roding (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 July 2003
Reference
650 c94WA; HL 3403
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how large the task force is which is looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq broken down by (a) scientists, (b) army personnel and (c) others; and if she will list the job categories of those in (c) above. - Includes...

Asked by
Julie Morgan (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 June 2003
Reference
121013; 408 c40W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many new scientific posts are being created at AWE; and what their role is in weapons research.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 June 2003
Reference
118400; 406 c1019W;406 c1023W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many scientists and other personnel linked to Saddam Hussein's regime have been identified by the Coalition as key figures in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; how many of these have been interviewed; and how...

Asked by
Mark Simmonds (Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 June 2003
Reference
115512; 406 c552W
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Patricia Hewitt (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2003
Reference
406 c307-8
House
House of Commons
1st supplementary on same.
Asked by
Doug Naysmith (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
5 June 2003
Reference
406 c307-8
House
House of Commons
To ask the Minister for Women, What steps she is taking to encourage women to take up careers as (a) scientists, (b) technologists and (c) engineers.
Asked by
Doug Naysmith (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
5 June 2003
Reference
406 c307-8; 116567
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Patricia Hewitt (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 June 2003
Reference
406 c307-8
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many graduate scientists were recruited by the Nuclear Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in each of the last three years; and how many additional graduate scientists will be recruited during 2003-04. - Inc table.

Asked by
David Chaytor (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 May 2003
Reference
112825; 405 c271W;405 c270W
House
House of Commons
DNA

That this House, in this the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, congratulates all those scientists throughout the world and particularly those at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge who have contributed to the announcement that the entire human genome has been completely sequenced; and notes that this achievement is...

Primary sponsor
Brian Iddon (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
14 April 2003
Reference
1078
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the vacancy rate was for (a) radiographers and (b) biomedical scientists in the NHS in (i) England, (ii) each NHS region and (iii) each NHS trust in each of the last six years. (Tables in Library Dep 03/992). - No figures...

Asked by
Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 April 2003
Reference
106596; 403 c103W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applicants at biological research centres in (a) postgraduate institutes and (b) commercial laboratories and research facilities have been vetted under the voluntary security scheme and any other scheme in (i) the past five years and (ii) the...

Asked by
Andrew Mackinlay (Labour)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 March 2003
Reference
402 c70W; 85024;85023;85022;85025
House
House of Commons

That this House congratulates The Royal Society of Chemistry on organising The Voice of the Future on Wednesday 19th March at the House and on its continuing commitment to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the access of honourable Members to scientific information and a better understanding of...

Primary sponsor
Brian Iddon (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
19 March 2003
Reference
922
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the (a) expert advisers and (b) scientists consulted by (i) his Department and (ii) the Health and Safety Executive in connection with the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002; and if he will list the...

Asked by
Oliver Heald (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 March 2003
Reference
98659; 401 c336W;401 c334-5W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations have been made to her Department by scientists involved in the cloning of animals; whether the representations have discussed products from cloned animals reaching the food chain; and what assessment the Government has made of...

Asked by
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 February 2003
Reference
94980; 399 c374W;399 c372W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the (a) engineers and (b) scientists that have provided responses to the Energy Review. - Inc ref to www.dti.gov.uk/energy/developep/responses/shtml. (Holding answer 9 December 2002).

Asked by
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 December 2002
Reference
85449; 396 c327W;396 c327-8W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will end the moratorium imposed on Horticulture Research International regarding scientific staff; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by
Desmond Swayne (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2002
Reference
84136; 395 c950W;395 c948W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to transfer scientists from Wellesbourne to HRI Efford; and if she will make a statement; if she will make a statement about the conclusions of the 2002 Quinquennial Review of the Horticultural Research Institute...

Asked by
Desmond Swayne (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 November 2002
Reference
394 c42W; 80826;80883
House
House of Commons