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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people from science and technology backgrounds have been seconded into the civil service in his Department in each of the last three years.

Asked by
Brian Iddon (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 July 2006
Reference
48412; 449 c284-5W
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply, but do the Government realise that, because of their highly specialised education, scientists and technical experts in the UK need the same broad training about institutions and policy that the Government provide to policy-making civil servants and to parliamentary staff? Does he realise that, unless something is done, the Government will have continuing difficulty in promoting specialists to senior managerial positions in the Civil Service and specialist agencies?
Asked by
Lord Hunt of Chesterton (Labour)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
16 February 2006
Reference
678 c1255-6
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many (a) domestic awards have been won, (b) international science awards have been won and (c) papers have been published in Nature by scientists working at the laboratories which will be closed under the proposed restructuring of the Centre...

Asked by
Lord Barker of Battle (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 January 2006
Reference
42555; 442 c103W;442 c103W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many scientists who have conducted research into the association between drug misuse and mental illness (a) serve and (b) have served since 1997 on the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs.

Asked by
Greg Clark (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 January 2006
Reference
42013; 441 c1273W;441 c1272-3W
House
House of Commons

States party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) met in Geneva, 5 to 9 December. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and promote common understanding and effective action on the content, adoption and promulgation of codes of conduct for scientists. The states party to the BTWC...

Member
Lord Triesman (Labour)
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written statements
Date
20 December 2005
Reference
676 c171-3WS
House
House of Lords

States Party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) met in Geneva, 5–9 December. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and promote common understanding and effective action on the content, adoption and promulgation of codes of conduct for scientists. The States Party to the BTWC agreed by...

Member
Kim Howells (Labour)
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written statements
Date
20 December 2005
Reference
440 c191-3WS
House
House of Commons

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Warner on 7 September 2004 (WA 137), how many   (a) doctors; (b) nurses; (c) ambulance staff; (d) scientists; and (e) others have been vaccinated for smallpox so as to enable them to deal with a terrorist attack; and how many of these have had complications...

Asked by
Lord Jopling (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 November 2005
Reference
676 c12-3WA; 2369
House
House of Lords

What steps they have taken in the training of scientists in or from developing countries, particularly in translational research, to ensure the retention of science graduates in their home countries.

Asked by
Baroness Northover (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 November 2005
Reference
1873; 675 c176-7WA
House
House of Lords