Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Insect decline and UK food security

Inquiry Commercialising quantum technologies

Witnesses Professor Alessandro Fedrizzi (Professor of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University), and Professor David Cumming (Professor of Electronic Systems at University of Glasgow)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Witnesses Dame Melanie Dawes (Chief Executive at Ofcom), and Will Hayter (Senior Director, Digital Markets Unit at Competition and Markets Authority (CMA))

Inquiry Insect decline and UK food security

Witnesses Professor Linda Field (Professor Emirita at Rothamsted Research), and Professor Toby Bruce (Professor of Insect Chemical Ecology at Keele University)

Inquiry Commercialising quantum technologies

Witnesses Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS (Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, and Chair Quantum Metrology Institute at National Physical Laboratory), and Dr Michael Cuthbert (Aegis Professor at University of Bristol, and Director at National Quantum Computing Centre)

Inquiry Insect decline and UK food security

Witnesses Professor Lynn Dicks (Lead of the Agroecology Research Group at University of Cambridge), and Craig Bennett (Chief Executive Officer at The Wildlife Trusts)

Work The work of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS (The Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

Inquiry Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19

Witnesses Professor Bryan Charleston (Director at The Pirbright Institute), and Professor Sir Peter Horby (Director at Pandemic Sciences Institute)

Inquiry Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19

Witnesses Professor Paul Digard (Chair at Virology, Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh), and Professor Ian Barr (Deputy Director at World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza)

Inquiry Insect decline and UK food security

Witnesses Dr Erica McAlister (Senior Curator of Diptera at Natural History Museum), and Professor Phil Stevenson (Head of Trait Diversity and Function at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Witnesses Lindsey Chiswick (Director of Intelligence at Metropolitan Police), and Dr Tony Mansfield (Principal Research Scientist at National Physical Laboratory)

Work Sir Patrick Vallance: Valedictory (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Sir Patrick Vallance (Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government at UK Government)

Inquiry UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure

Witnesses Frank Strang (CEO at SaxaVord Spaceport), and Dave Ballance (Launch Operations Manager at SaxaVord Spaceport)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Witnesses Jamie Njoku-Goodwin (CEO at UK Music), and Paul Fleming (General Secretary at Equity)

Inquiry The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages

Work Nurse, Grant and Tickell Reviews and Horizon Europe (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Sir Paul Nurse (Director at Francis Crick Institute), Professor Adam Tickell (Vice-Chancellor at University of Birmingham), Sir Adrian Smith (President at Royal Society), Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser (Chief Executive at UKRI), and Professor Irene Tracey (Vice-Chancellor at University of Oxford)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Witnesses Professor Rose Luckin (Professor of Learner Centred Design at University College London, and Director at Educate), Daisy Christodoulou (Director of Education at No More Marking), Dr Matthew Glanville (Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at The International Baccalaureate), and Joel Kenyon (Science Teacher and Community Cohesion Lead at Dormers Wells High School)

Inquiry The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages

Witnesses Dr Jean-Paul Pirnay (Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Technology at Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels), Dr Mzia Kutateladze (Director at George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology), Professor Jon Iredell (Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research), Professor Robert Schooley (Professor of Division of Infectious Diseases at UC San Diego School of Medicine), Greg Merril (Chief Operating Officer at Adaptive Phage Therapeutics), Dr Hans Petter Kleppen (Chief Science Officer at ACD Pharma), and Naomi Zak (Founder at BiomX)

Inquiry Governance of artificial intelligence (AI)

Witnesses Professor Andrew Hopkins (Chief Executive at Exscientia), Professor Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes (Professor of Biomedical Computing at University College London, and Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics at University of Ibadjan), and Professor Mihaela van der Schaar (John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine, and Director at Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, Cambridge University)