The Science and Technology Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Office of Science and Technology
and associated public bodies.
The Committee consists of 11 Members. It has
a quorum of three. Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members
nominated to the Committee continue to be members of it for the
remainder of the Parliament.
The Committee has power:
(a) to send for persons, papers and records,
to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn
from place to place, and to report from time to time;
(b) to appoint specialist advisers either to
supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate
matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference;
(c) to communicate to any other such committee
and to the Committee of Public Accounts, the Deregulation Committee
and the Environmental Audit Committee its evidence and any other
documents relating to matters of common interest; and
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such
committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or
considering draft reports.
The following were nominated Members of the
Committee on 14 July 1997:
Mr David Atkinson
Mr Nigel Beard
Dr Michael Clark
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas
Dr Ian Gibson
Dr Lynne Jones
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Mr Nigel Jones
Dr Ashok Kumar
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Dr Desmond Turner
Dr Alan W Williams
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Dr Michael Clark was elected Chairman on 30
July 1997.
On 22 June 1998 Mrs Caroline Spelman was discharged
from and Mrs Jacqui Lait added to the Committee.
