Download or read book House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Clinical Trials HC 104 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the trials taking place today are unregistered and unpublished, meaning that the information that they generate remains invisible to both the scientific community and the public. This undermines public trust, slowing the pace of medical advancement and potentially putting patients at risk. All trials conducted on NHS treatments-and all other trials receiving public funding-should be prospectively registered and their results published in a scientific journal. While the focus should be on implementing this change for future trials, the Government must also do what it can to ensure that historic trials are registered and published, particularly where they have been publically funded. The Government should also take steps to facilitate greater sharing of the raw data generated during a trial in a responsible and controlled way, with the knowledge and consent of patients. The report also draws attention to the recent fall in the number of trials taking place in the UK. It finds that the need for multiple governance approvals from participating NHS organisations remained the biggest barrier to setting up a UK trial, but that lack of public awareness was also a key issue. Recruiting participants can also be a challenge. The report calls on the Government to take its recommendations into account in ongoing discussions regarding the revision of European clinical trials legislation and in its response to the European Medicines Agency's consultation on the release of clinical trial data, which closes at the end of this month
Download or read book House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Work of the European and UK Space Agencies HC 253 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee heard much positive feedback about the work of the UK Space Agency since its creation in 2011. The UK's space sector is one of our economy's fastest growing sectors, with an average growth rate of almost 7.5%, and it has ambitions to increase its annual turnover to £40 billion by 2030. The report welcomes recent increases in the UK's commitments to the European Space Agency, but urged the UK Space Agency to strengthen UK influence within the European Space Agency by providing support for UK candidates applying for future director-level positions within the Agency. There are a number of exciting developments happening in the UK space sector, including the expansion of the European Space Agency's operations at Harwell, the establishment of the Satellite Applications Catapult and Major Tim Peake's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. With continued cross-party support, we hope to see this sector expand in line with its ambitions and continue to attract jobs and businesses to the UK
Download or read book Science in the Met Office written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 1538, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215041876)
Download or read book The last report written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28 June 2007, the Prime Minister announced changes to the machinery of Government that had an impact upon the select committee system within the House of Commons. As a result, the Science and Technology Select Committee will be dissolved and replaced by a new Innovation, Universities and Skills Select Committee at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. This Report explains the role that the Science and Technology Committee has played within Parliament and the science community. It outlines the Committee's innovations, its impact and concerns regarding future science scrutiny in the House of Commons. It concludes that, in the long term, a separate Science and Technology Committee is the only way to guarantee a permanent focus on science across Government within the select committee system and recommends that the House be given an opportunity to revisit this issue.
Download or read book Government Response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to HCP 163, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215049742)
Download or read book Government Response to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Report Setting Priorities for Publicly Funded Research written by Great Britain: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to the Committee's 3rd report of session 2009-10 (HL paper 104-I, ISBN 9780108472329)
Download or read book The Government Response to the Second Report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Session 2013 14 HC 610 Cm 8750 written by Great Britain: Home Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to the Committee's second report, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215060976)
Download or read book House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Science Education from 14 to 19 Government Response to the Committee s Third Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pre appointment hearing with the Government s preferred candidate for Chair of the Medical Research Council written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preferred candidate is Dr Paul Golby and the Committee recommends the appointment proceeds
Download or read book Government Response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry Into Clinical Trials written by Great Britain. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to HCP 104, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215062321). The Health Research Authority's response to the report published as HC 753, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215063274)
Download or read book Science and Technology Select Committee The Policy and Organisation of Office of Science and Technology First Special Report from Science and Technology Select Committee Supplementary Government Reply written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bridging the Valley of Death written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There exists the concept of a valley of death that prevents the progress of science from the laboratory bench to the point where it provides the basis of a commercially successful business or product. The future success of the UK economy has been linked to the success of translating a world class science base to generate new businesses with the consequent generation of UK jobs and wealth. A troubling feature of technology companies in the UK is how many are acquired by foreign owners where the subsequent jobs and wealth are generated outside the UK. It is key that the Government ensure that sufficient capital is available and recommended that the proposed bank for business, possibly in partnership with the Business Growth Fund, be used to promote a bond market for medium sized businesses, thus providing growing small businesses with an additional source of funding. It is also recommended that the Government investigate the potential to require funds to have a proportion of European SME equities. There needs to be a mechanism to support SME's who do disproportionately badly from the current R&D tax credit scheme. The Technology Strategy Board is becoming the focus for government innovation policy and Government should consider how they can resource the TSB to provide local level advice to technology businesses. The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) and the SMART Award scheme would appear to be successful initiatives but lack sufficient funds to meet the demand from companies
Download or read book Government Response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Report written by Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated July 2010. Government response to the Committee's 6th report, HCP 335-I, session 2009-10 (ISBN 9780215545190)
Download or read book Communicating Climate Science HC 254 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government is failing to clearly and effectively communicate climate science to the public. There is little evidence of co-ordination amongst Government, government agencies and public bodies on communicating climate science, despite various policies at national and regional level to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The mandate to act on climate can only be maintained if the electorate are convinced that the Government is acting on the basis of strong scientific evidence. Ministers therefore need to do more to demonstrate that is the case and consistently reflect the Government approach in all their communications, especially with the media. The report also criticises the BBC for its reporting on the issue. It points out that BBC News teams continue to make mistakes in their coverage of climate science by giving opinions and scientific fact the same weight. The BBC is called to develop clear editorial guidelines for all commentators and presenters on the facts of climate that should be used to challenge statements, from either side of the climate policy debate, that stray too far from the scientific facts. It is important that climate science is presented separately from any subsequent policy response. Government should work with the learned societies and national academies to develop a source of information on climate science that is discrete from policy delivery, comprehensible to the general public and responsive to both current developments and uncertainties in the science
Download or read book Building Scientific Capacity for Development written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK has benefitted from having strong scientific advice available to Ministers and developing nations would see a huge benefit from being able to draw on strong home-grown institutions to inform policy decisions. A previous report by the Science and Technology Committee had criticised the Government for not paying enough attention to building the science base of developing nations. While concerns remain, MPs considered that the Department for International Development had made improvements in using a more robust evidence base and developing its own in-house expertise. An important feature raised in this report is that there had to be more attention paid to ensuring that scientists, especially those trained through UK support, were facilitated in staying in their home country and utilising the skills they had acquired. More support was needed to permit scientists from developing nations to build and develop their early career within in their native country. Only then could programmes to build scientific capacity eventually become self-sustaining. UK science benefits from collaborations in developing nations and through building connections with growing economies of the world but the MPs found that current funding streams actively discourage the participation of UK scientists. The MPs recommended that exercises such as the Research Excellence Framework recognise the contribution made by these scientists beyond their publication record.
Download or read book The Government s response to the Science and Technology Committee s fourth report Session 1996 97 The Research Council system issues for the future written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
