BUILDING THE ERA OF KNOWLEDGE FOR GROWTH
(8156/05)
Letter from Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister
of State for Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry
to the Chairman
On 31 August 2005[21]
Lord Sainsbury wrote to your Committee concerning points which
had been raised during the scrutiny process on the above European
Commission document. On 26 October, following a meeting on 24
October, the Committee replied, welcoming points he had made in
this letter.
While your letter raised no additional issues
specifically relating to this document, your Committee said that
it would keep the proposal under scrutiny because of its close
links with the negotiation of the Seventh Framework Programme
for Research and Development, going on concurrently and about
which the Committee was in the process of asking for further information.
This information was provided and indeed all
the documentation relating directly to these negotiations was
cleared from scrutiny some time ago.
We would be grateful to know what further information
is required on this proposal since it does not appear to have
been formally cleared along with the other material relating to
the Framework Programme negotiations.
23 April 2007
21 Correspondence with Ministers, 45th Report of Session
2005-06, HL Paper 243, p 93. Back
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