Department for International Trade: Chief Scientific Advisers

Department for International Trade written question – answered at on 11 June 2018.

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Photo of Norman Lamb Norman Lamb Chair, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Chair, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings he had with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 January and 31 March 2018.

Photo of Greg Hands Greg Hands The Minister of State, Department for International Trade

Ministerial offices have been engaging with the Chief Scientific Adviser. My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade recently met with the Chief Scientific Adviser’s Head of Office and has a meeting in his diary to meet the Chief Scientific Adviser in June 2018.

The Chief Scientific Adviser contributes fully to policy development, including through frequent meetings with the Permanent Secretary, Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and other members of DIT’s Executive Committee; as well as engaging more broadly with policy development such as through the Chief Scientific Advisers’ Network.

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