Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings he held with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between October and December 2017.
Dr Mike Short CBE has recently taken up his position as Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for International Trade (DIT). My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade publicly welcomed his appointment when it was announced, stating how ‘Dr Short’s many decades of experience in technology, innovation and public policy will ensure that cutting-edge scientific and technical know-how is firmly at the core of DIT’s work’. The Secretary of State will be formally meeting Dr Short in the coming weeks.