Council for Science and Technology

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Council for Science and Technology
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Non-departmental public body overview
Formed1993;33 years ago (1993)
Preceding Non-departmental public body
  • Advisory Council on Science and Technology
Jurisdiction United Kingdom
StatusActive
Headquarters London, England
Non-departmental public body executives
Website www.gov.uk/government/organisations/council-for-science-and-technology

The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government. Its role is to give advice on issues that cut across government departments to the Prime Minister, the First Minister of Scotland and the First Minister for Wales. It was established in 1993 and relaunched in 2003. It is based in London.

The Council has 19 independent members appointed by the Prime Minister, including the presidents of the four UK-wide national academies. [1] The Council is headed by two co-chairs, an independent Co-Chair Lord Browne of Madingley who chairs meetings where advice is being developed, and Dame Angela McLean, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and head of the Government Office for Science, who chairs meetings reporting its advice to government. [2] Previous independent co-chairs include Dame Nancy Rothwell and Dame Janet Finch.

Advice is frequently published in the form of letters to the prime minister, including a series of recommendations, but also in reports or meetings. [3] Examples include the recommendation to found the Alan Turing Institute as a national centre for data science research in their 2013 letter 'the age of algorithms'. [4] In 2024 CST made a joint statement on shared science and technology priorities with its US counterpart, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. [5]

The advisory functions of the CST had previously been performed by the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD), from 1976 to 1987, and the Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST) from 1987 to 1993.

References

  1. ↑ "About us". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "Membership". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Working with government".
  4. ↑ "How expert advice inspired the national centre for data science".
  5. ↑ "Joint statement from the United Kingdom's Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and United States' President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, March 2024".


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