Information between 16th May 2024 - 26th May 2024
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Valedictory Debate
114 speeches (57,382 words) Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) staff to reduce waiting lists and improve urgent and emergency care; and cementing the UK’s status as a life - Link to Speech |
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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
19 speeches (5,082 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) We do not yet have a genetic test for every type of EDS or HSD, but as the Minister for life sciences - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
131 speeches (10,186 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Can the Minister explain why not one of his major science strategies—the life sciences vision, the national - Link to Speech 2: Gary Sambrook (Con - Birmingham, Northfield) What steps her Department is taking to support the life sciences manufacturing sector. - Link to Speech 3: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) The Government could not be more committed to supporting our valued life sciences sector, which, in the - Link to Speech 4: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) I personally benefited from the advice of Professor Martini in the life sciences real estate working - Link to Speech 5: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) Whether it is AI, quantum, life sciences or the next generation of advanced telecommunications, we are - Link to Speech |
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Smarter Regulation Programme
1 speech (1,087 words) Thursday 16th May 2024 - Written Statements Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) , experiment, and capitalise on the UK’s global leadership in areas like clean energy technologies, life - Link to Speech |
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Friday 24th May 2024
Written Evidence - Intelligent Health FDO0109 - Food, Diet and Obesity Food, Diet and Obesity - Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Found: Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/life-sciences-vision-missions/obesity- mission |
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Friday 24th May 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Note of informal/inquorate discussion on Monday 15 April 2024 for Scotland's space sector inquiry Scottish Affairs Committee Found: The life sciences have seen programmes like this for SMEs , which have created a connection between |
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Tuesday 21st May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Secretary of State relating to an update on the Smarter Regulation Programme, 16 May 2024 Business and Trade Committee Found: experiment, and capitalise on the UK’s global leadership in areas like clean energy technologies, life |
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Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - C4X Discovery, SynBioVen, and Potter Clarkson Engineering biology - Science and Technology Committee (Lords) Found: A key challenge in biotech and life sciences more generally is that you need data to get a patent. |
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Wednesday 8th May 2024
Oral Evidence - TheCityUK FCA and PRA’s secondary competitiveness and growth objective - Financial Services Regulation Committee Found: We have a terrific life sciences sector here. |
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Life Sciences Council
Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Monday 20th May 2024 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2024 to Question 25493 on Life Sciences Council, for what reason the Life Sciences Council meeting of May 2024 was rescheduled; how long had the meeting been in place prior to rescheduling; and how much notice was given to the meeting participants of its rescheduling. Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) The May 2024 meeting of the Life Sciences Council (LSC) was rescheduled due to Ministerial diary pressures and has now been confirmed for June 2024.
The May meeting was confirmed three months prior to the meeting date. Five weeks’ notice was given to meeting participants of its rescheduling. |
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Disease Control
Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Thursday 16th May 2024 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to collaborate with the Department for Health and Social Care on pandemic preparedness. Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) Our new £520m fund will help provide the capabilities and capacities to support domestic UK health resilience and ensure a robust response to potential future health emergencies, such as influenza pandemics. The Office for Life Sciences will publish the fund’s strategic objectives, process, and assessment criteria in due course. We are working closely with DHSC to ensure that the fund will contribute to the Government’s pandemic preparedness priorities. |
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May. 08 2024
Letter from Viscount Camrose and Lord Harlech to Peers regarding questions raised in committee stage debates, including use of cookies, telecommunications, form of birth and death registers, information on sign-apparatus), deepfakes. Data Protection and Digital Information Bill 2022-23 Will write letters Found: The Office for Life Sciences, in conjunction with other Departments and Agencies across Government, |
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Friday 24th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Source Page: Belgium: UK Science and Innovation Network summary Document: (PDF) Found: Since 2021, Life Sciences (and health) is part of a wider bilateral M emorandum of Understanding (MoU |
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Friday 17th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI Document: (PDF) Found: avenues by which general -purpose AI systems could, speculatively, facilitate malicious use in the life |
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Friday 17th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Source Page: Singapore: UK Science and Innovation Network summary Document: (PDF) Found: PUBLIC RELEASE o National Biofilms Innovation Centre signed two MoUs with the Singapore Centre for Life |
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May. 22 2024
Education and Skills Funding Agency Source Page: Teachers' pay additional grant 2024 to 2025 Document: (ODS) Guidance and Regulation Found: 119.14 43009.54 0 65.08 0 470 100.12 47056.4 2803.26 155162 64651 139588 3414002 341 Liverpool Liverpool Life |
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May. 21 2024
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Source Page: Common specification requirements for in vitro diagnostic devices Document: (PDF) Open consultation Found: when anonymised, with Department of Health and Social Care, Government Legal Department, Office for Life |
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May. 20 2024
Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Referral of the proposed Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund by Office for Life Sciences Document: Referral of the proposed Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund by Office for Life Sciences (webpage) News and Communications Found: Referral of the proposed Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund by Office for Life Sciences |
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May. 17 2024
AI Safety Institute Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: avenues by which general -purpose AI systems could, speculatively, facilitate malicious use in the life |
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Monday 20th May 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Smarter regulation: One year on. 45p. Document: Smarter_Regulations_One_Year_On.pdf (PDF) Found: experiment, and capitalise on the UK’s global leadership in area s like clean energy technologies, life |
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Agenda for meeting on 21 May 2024
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Life Sciences Published: 21st May 2024 Found: 1 Cross -Party Group on Life Sciences Tuesday 21st May 2024 , 5.45pm – 7.15pm Agenda Agenda |
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Agenda for meeting on 20 February 2024
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Life Sciences Published: 20th Feb 2024 Found: 1 Cross -Party Group on Life Sciences Tuesday 20th February 2024 , 5.45pm – 7.15pm Agenda |