Complementary Reports
1.18 This Report concerns RDAs' interactions
with the SET base. Complementary aspects of RDAs' operations have
been or will be reported on by other Select Committees in the
light of the following studies:
- the impact of RDAs on regional disparities
by the House of Commons ODPM[9]
Committee as part of its investigation of the ODPM target to
reduce the gap in growth rates between regions, which reported[10]
in early July 2003;
- the interaction between Higher Education Institutions
and RDAs by the House of Commons Education and Skills
Committee as part of its study of the proposals in the White
Paper The Future of Higher Education[11],
due to report in the second half of 2003; and
- RDAs' role in the provision of support to industries
and businesses by the House of Commons Trade and Industry
Committee, due to report in Autumn 2003.
Abbreviations
1.19 Abbreviations are generally explained only
the first time they are used. For convenience, they are all listed
in Appendix 9.
1 Information from Investing in Innovation:
a strategy for science, engineering and technology, July 2002
- text available on www.hm-treasury.gov.uk Back
2 As noted in paragraph 2.5,
this term is used throughout this Report also to include the separately
established London Development Agency. Back
3 Frameworks for Regional Education
and Skills Action. Back
4
See paragraphs 1.11(o) and 4.51. Back
5 Fuller details in Appendix
1. Back
6
The Sub-Committee remained in Newcastle on 21 March for one of the
public hearings mentioned in paragraph 1.13, see page 159 of Volume
II. Back
7
Throughout this Report, p refers to a page number of written evidence
in Volume II. Back
8
Throughout this Report, Q refers to a question number of oral evidence
in Volume II. Back
9
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Back
10 Reducing Regional Disparities
in Prosperity, 9th Report Session 2002-03, HC Paper 492. Back
11 Cm 5735, January 2003. Back