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Science and Technology Committee

Lords Select Committee

The Science and Technology Committee is appointed to consider science and technology. It does this principally through undertaking inquiries.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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1st Report - Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology
Inquiry Engineering biology
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Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation response to Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology
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Government response to Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology
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1st Report - Long-duration energy storage: get on with it
Inquiry Long-duration energy storage
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Government response to Long-duration energy storage: get on with it
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2nd Report - The neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health
Inquiry The effects of artificial light and noise on human health
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Government response to The neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health
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Correspondence

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Letter from Matt Clifford and Ilan Gur, Chair and CEO of ARIA, ref providing answers to the Committee’s follow-up questions
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Letter from Baroness Brown of Cambridge to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP and Lord Vallance of Balham, ref Science visa policy
Work Science visa policy (Non-inquiry session)
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Letter from Baroness Brown of Cambridge to Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford, ref ARIA
Work Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) (Non-inquiry session)
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Oral evidence transcripts

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1 April 2025
Inquiry Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry
Witnesses Angus Hanton, and Stian Westlake
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25 March 2025
Inquiry Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry
Witnesses Tony Blair Institute, and UK Day One
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25 March 2025
Inquiry Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry
Witnesses Dr Richard Jones (Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation at University of Manchester), and Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE)
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Written evidence

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Campaign for Mathematical Sciences (MTS0001)
Work Maths education (Non-inquiry session)
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Professor Joanne Santini (Professor of Microbiology at University College London (UCL)) (APB0001)
Work The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages (Non-inquiry session)
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Shuyeb Muquit (UK Government Affairs Strategy Lead at Fragomen LLP) (SVP0002)
Work Science visa policy (Non-inquiry session)
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Other publications

Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
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Older evidence
Written evidence and oral evidence transcripts transferred from our archive website.
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Other documents
Other documents connected to the committee's work.
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Pre-2010 publications
Committee documents published online before May 2010.

Contact us

  • Email: hlscience@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 5750 (committee staff) | 020 7219 1692 (Press Officer)
  • Address: Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW