Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Minutes of Evidence
Defra science

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 17 March 2010.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Wednesday 17 March 2010

Members present

Mr Michael Jack, in the Chair

Mr David Drew	Miss Anne McIntosh
Lynne Jones	Dr Gavin Strang
David Lepper	Paddy Tipping

CONTENTS

Witnesses: Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, Defra; Professor Alistair Hetherington, member of Defra Science Advisory Council; Dr Timothy Hall, Head of Unit for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Aquaculture, EU DG Research; Mr Steve Visscher, Deputy Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC); Ms Miranda Kavanagh, Director of Evidence, Environment Agency; Mr Henry Robinson, Vice-President, Country Land and Business Association (CLA); Dr David Gibbons, Head of Conservation Science, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Ms Joyce D'Silva, Dr Alan Gadian, Ms Joanna Wheatley, Professor Rick Battarbee, Professor Jack Winckler, Dr Christopher Atkinson, Dr Jonathan Clarke, Dr Tina Barsby, Professor Chris G Collier, and Ms Magda Ibrahim gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-46

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Prepared 21 April 2010