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Department for Trade and Industry

Estimates day on Monday, 9 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Willis of Knaresborough. The answering member was Ian Pearson.
Department of Trade and Industry. Estimates 2007-08. Third estimates day (part 1). (Inc ref to Science and Technology Select committee seventh report of session 2005-06 HC 900, and Government response, HC 307). Resolved on question.

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Reference

462 c1205-49 

Session

2006-07

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Angela Watkinson | 462 c1226 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being generous and giving way again. Does he recognise that the lay publi...
Evan Harris | 462 c1235 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has detailed knowledge of that subject, and is probably the leading expert on it ...

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Evan Harris | 462 c1234-5 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman about the health risks of cannabis, but the classification...
Brian Iddon | 462 c1235 (Link to this contribution) Is it not important that any evidence that is relied on has been peer reviewed? Some years ago, I wa...
Evan Harris | 462 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his new brief. I think he will find it very exciting, and I look forward t...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1234 (Link to this contribution) That is a good example of the need to be careful about the quality of scientific advice. What concer...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1230 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend enlighten me about the number of scientists or outside groups that advised the Go...
Brian Iddon | 462 c1230-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks me a difficult question, which I cannot answer, but I am sure that the advice ca...
Brian Iddon | 462 c1227-30 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Esher and Walton (Mr. Taylor). I also congratul...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1226-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that food scares can create shifts in the market. When I was a Minister, I h...
Ian Pearson | 462 c1247-9 (Link to this contribution) The programme is going on at the moment; it will be fully evaluated, and no doubt all the findings w...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1242 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree; there is a difference between the trust one places in NGOs and the trust that one is...
Ian Pearson | 462 c1242-7 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking all the Members who expressed their good wishes to me in my new role as Minister...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1235 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the ability to repeat data is an essential aspect of science?...
Evan Harris | 462 c1235-6 (Link to this contribution) I was going to say that that is part of the nature of science: the situation is never clear because ...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1236 (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of ambiguity, will the hon. Gentleman confirm that he is referring to government w...
Evan Harris | 462 c1236-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I am happy to do so. We in this House benefit from having the experience of Members, such as...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his new role. I shall endeavour to keep my comments brief, as I represent ...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1239 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the report was the Krebs report, and that the culling was based o...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1239-41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: the initial report was on the Krebs trials, which was followed by the i...
Evan Harris | 462 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not share the hon. Gentleman’s view about Lord Sainsbury, but the allegation, ““You would say t...
Evan Harris | 462 c1247 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentions the success of the current programme. Can he say—he might not be able to do so...
Brian Iddon | 462 c1219 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend find it rather strange that Galileo was prevented from making progress by the re...
Baroness Browning | 462 c1220 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the opposition to a scientific development, particular...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that. I am very aware of that, given that I serve on the Joint Committee ...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1222-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be able to speak in this debate. I start by congratulating the Science and Technol...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1220-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady. That is another truism. Many people are put under pressure subtly or quite op...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, and that applies not just when it appears that fairly disreputable people in the s...
Angela Watkinson | 462 c1223 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the vast majority of the general public are laymen in scientific term...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1225-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, but in some ways people are unpredictable in what they deter...
Baroness Browning | 462 c1225 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that educating the lay public is not simply about putting complex scientif...
Angela Watkinson | 462 c1218 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that eminent scientists, particularly research scientists, often come up with dia...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Lady’s sentiments entirely. I know eminent virologists who do not believe that AIDS...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. It was not just the scientists in the British media who purv...
Brian Iddon | 462 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Have not the British media damaged the British industry? Compared with the American, Chinese and Ind...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I was a member of the John Innes Centre council at the time, and I remember a dinner party where Der...
Evan Harris | 462 c1215 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions the media, and I want to question whether he is right to say that the pr...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that. I thought for one second that he was about to talk about Fairtrade ...
Andrew Miller | 462 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be interested to know that a couple of weeks ago I hosted a meeting in the Membe...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1216-8 (Link to this contribution) People’s hands must be rather clean. Of course, there are mechanisms for people working in this plac...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1215 (Link to this contribution) My answer would be that there are scientists and there are scientists. There are scientists who work...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I hope to say a little more about how we might addre...
Baroness Browning | 462 c1215 (Link to this contribution) As someone who, in a former existence, licensed the first GM food in this country, I recall being gi...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) This is not an easy area and the Committee is not suggesting that. Our conclusion was that it is imp...
Andrew Miller | 462 c1213 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an extremely good point. Did his Committee look at the fact that the pu...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1215 (Link to this contribution) As an amateur scientist—the hon. Gentleman is a professional—I sometimes get frustrated when I have ...
Ian Gibson | 462 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister of State, Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, the hon. Me...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1208-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes two excellent points. In respect of departmental chief scientific advisers,...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1210-3 (Link to this contribution) I was not in any way trying to make a political point; I was merely musing that there had been a hug...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1210 (Link to this contribution) I am intervening because I was the Science Minister who took the decision that we should change the ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. On two occasions, the Science and Technology Commit...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1207 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a wholly valid point. I pay tribute to organisations such as Sense about Science...
Andrew Miller | 462 c1207-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee on his work. I was particularly ...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that in order to qualify the science, particularly on avian influenza,...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) Given that the new Department was set up only last week, it behoves all of us to have a little patie...
Ian Taylor | 462 c1206 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly confused. The hon. Gentleman began by welcoming the new Department, yet his subsequent...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 462 c1205-6 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by welcoming the Minister of State, Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, t...
Bill Wiggin | 462 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I am curious about the issue, because obviously, I was not part of the debate at the time. When a Mi...
Speaker | 462 c1227 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon), perhaps I should remind the...
Baroness Browning | 462 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that, however good the science and however much it is evide...
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