Department for Education: Chief Scientific Advisers

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many meetings (a) he and (b) his predecessor held with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between October 2017 and December 2017.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 31st January 2018

The Department for Education has not had a Chief Scientific Adviser in post since 30 September 2017. The Department is currently carrying out a review of analysis and we are considering whether the Department requires a Chief Scientific Adviser in addition to a Chief Analyst as part of this review. The Permanent Secretary gave written evidence to the Science and Technology Committee on 23 January, which will be published in due course and accessible here: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/research-integrity-17-19/publications/.

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