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.
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 | New Text |
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 |