Engineering
Business, Innovation and Skills
Rebecca Harris (Castle Point, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent representations he has received on the introduction of a chief engineering adviser for the purposes of advising the Government on how to support engineering in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
Mark Prisk (Minister of State (Business and Enterprise), Business, Innovation and Skills; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has received no recent representations regarding the introduction of a chief engineering adviser. Professor John Perkins was appointed as BIS chief scientific adviser on