Committee

Science and Technology Committee

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What it does

The Science and Technology Committee is appointed to consider science and technology. It does this principally through undertaking inquiries.
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Members

The Lord Mair CBE Crossbench Chair
The Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Labour Member
The Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne Conservative Member
The Baroness Willis of Summertown CBE Crossbench Member
The Lord Berkeley OBE Labour Member
The Lord Booth Conservative Member
The Lord Duncan of Springbank Conservative Member
The Lord Patel KT Crossbench Member
The Lord Ranger of Northwood Conservative Member
The Lord Stern of Brentford CH Crossbench Member
The Lord Verjee CBE Liberal Democrat Member
The Lord Willis of Knaresborough Liberal Democrat Member
The Lord Winston Labour Member
The Rt Hon. the Lord Drayson Labour Member

Recent outputs

Correspondence Letter from Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, ref Update on Women in Tech Taskforce 14 Jul 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 7th meeting 7 July 2026 14 Jul 2026
Correspondence Letter from Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, ref Launch of the Women in Research Charter 7 Jul 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 6th meeting 30 June 2026 7 Jul 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 5th meeting 24 June 2026 1 Jul 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 4th meeting 16 June 2026 24 Jun 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 3rd meeting 09 June 2026 16 Jun 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 2nd meeting 02 June 2026 10 Jun 2026
Formal Minutes Minutes 1st meeting 19 May 2026 2 Jun 2026
Government Response Government response to Rebuilding Forensic Science for Criminal Justice: An urgent need 21 Apr 2026
Report 3rd Report - Rebuilding forensic science for criminal justice: an urgent need 17 Feb 2026
Government Response Minister of State for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear response to Financing and Scaling UK S&T Inquiry Report - Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency 3 Feb 2026
Government Response Government response to Financing and Scaling UK S&T Inquiry Report - Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency 3 Feb 2026
Correspondence Letter from Dr Mark Bailey, Forensic Science Regulator, ref Forensic Science Inquiry Follow-Up 29 Jan 2026
Correspondence Letter from Sarah Jones MP, Minister of State for Policing and Crime, Home Office, ref Forensic Science Inquiry Follow-Up 29 Jan 2026
Correspondence Letter from Alison Fendley OBE, Executive Director, Forensic Archive, ref Forensic Science Inquiry Follow-Up 18 Nov 2025
Report 2nd Report - Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency 5 Nov 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Mair to Lord Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci, ref Maths education letter correspondence 18 Jul 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMed, ref Maths education letter correspondence 18 Jul 2025
Government Response Government response to letter on Visa Policy for STEM talent 24 Jun 2025
Government Response Government response to Maths education letter 24 Jun 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Mair to Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education ref Maths education 21 May 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Mair to Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister; Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Home Secretary; Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Vallance of Balham, Minister for Science, ref visas for STEM talent 7 May 2025
Declarations of interest Science and Technology Committee Declaration of Interests as of 1 May 2025 1 May 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Vallance of Balham, Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, ref Regulatory Horizons Council report on the Governance of Engineering Biology 22 Apr 2025
Correspondence Letter from Lord Vallance of Balham, Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, ref the announcement of health data initiative 22 Apr 2025
Correspondence Letter from Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, Parliamentary Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology ref publication of DSIT's R&D allocations for 2025/26 22 Apr 2025
Government Response Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation response to Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology 17 Mar 2025
Government Response Government response to Don’t fail to scale: seizing the opportunity of engineering biology 17 Mar 2025
Government Response Government response to Vaccine resilience letter 10 Mar 2025

Source: the official committee page.