Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Carol Monaghan Excerpts
Wednesday 10th January 2024

(7 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the SNP spokesperson.

Carol Monaghan Portrait Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP)
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The proposed sale of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, a critical piece of national infrastructure, will be hugely damaging to innovation in biomedical science. I appreciate that the Science Minister will be meeting me later today to discuss the issue, but can the Minister explain how this sale sits with the UK Government’s plan to be a science superpower?

Saqib Bhatti Portrait Saqib Bhatti
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I hope that my colleague the Science Minister will be able to address the hon. Lady’s concerns at that meeting.