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Lancaster University
 CCS0007 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: change-maritime security nexus and gave oral evidence to the Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar

Select Committee
1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic

Report Nov. 29 2023

Committee: International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: Regions Department.

Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Americas and the Caribbean (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), following up on questions raised at the The UK and the Arctic Environment evidence session of 17 July, dated 18 August 2023

Correspondence Sep. 05 2023

Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: : fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk James Gray MP Chair, Environmental Audit Sub -Committee on Polar

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Railway Stations (North of Central Belt) - Thu 25 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) The north-east, in particular, is underserved when compared with other regions, yet it has been so important - Speech Link
2: Eagle, Tim (Con - Highlands and Islands) constituents in Oban and in Argyll and Bute have contacted me about what they are now calling the “polar - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Marine Protected Area - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) environmental perspective.Spread across five of the seven seas, and with environments ranging from tropical to polar - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) Thirty leading marine biologists and polar scientists have called for the Government to upgrade the MPA - Speech Link
3: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) I have some interest in these matters as the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for the polar - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) held by everyone.I am conscious both of time and that I am not the Minister formally overseeing the polar - Speech Link

Select Committee
British Antarctic Survey
 ANT0022 - The UK and the Antarctic Environment

Written Evidence Dec. 05 2023

Inquiry: The UK and the Antarctic Environment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: Survey ANT0022 Evidence from the British Antarctic Survey Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) We have 78 universities that are leading in that field—we are the fourth largest polar scientific research - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) Friend does fantastic work highlighting polar research through the all-party parliamentary group for - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) regulate our growth industries more competitively, and we have signed trade deals with the fastest growing regions - Speech Link

Select Committee
Letter from the Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Technology responding to the Sub-Committee's letter of 24 July 2023, dated 2 August 2023

Correspondence Sep. 05 2023

Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: As you are aware from our discussions at the Polar Roundtables which I convened, polar research is

Written Question
Polar Regions: Research
Thursday 23rd November 2023

Asked by: Barry Gardiner (Labour - Brent North)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Natural Environment Research Council funding rules on UK Polar research.

Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is the leading funder of natural environment research in the United Kingdom. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is part of NERC and operates polar infrastructure and facilities on NERC’s behalf, including the polar research vessel and research stations, to enable polar science and research activity. NERC funding, including to polar research, is delivered via competitive, peer-reviewed application processes. Awards are made to Research Organisations based on terms and conditions detailed in NERC’s Research Grants and Fellowships Handbook. NERC also supports strategic research and national capability programmes.

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oral Evidence May. 08 2024

Inquiry: The UK and the Antarctic Environment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: I think it is important for the team as well, our polar regions team, when they can see that enthusiasm