Chief Scientific Advisers

(asked on 6th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the list of departmental chief scientific advisers was last updated.


This question was answered on 11th September 2017

The list of Chief Scientific Advisers was last updated in February 2017. The Government Office for Science is in the process of updating the list to capture recent changes. The updates which will be made to the published list shortly are set out below.

Department

Previous position

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Department for International Trade

Currently no CSA

Recruiting

Department for Work and Pensions

Pui Ling Li

Trevor Huddleston

Her Majesty’s Treasury

Vacant

Philip Duffy

Home Office

Bernard Silverman

John Aston

Ministry of Defence

Vacant

Hugh Durrant-Whyte

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