Department for International Trade: Chief Scientific Advisers
(asked on 8th March 2019) - View Source
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 1 December 2018 and 28 February 2019.
My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary for State and Chief Scientific Adviser met for a one-to-one meeting on 19th December 2019. The Secretary of State and Chief Scientific Adviser also led a delegation of 100 to the annual CES in the USA from the 7th to 10th of January 2019.
The Chief Scientific Adviser contributes fully to policy development, including through frequent meetings with the Permanent Secretary, Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and other members of the Department for International Trade’s Executive Committee; as well as engaging more broadly with policy development such as through the Chief Scientific Advisers’ Network.