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Communications Constitution Economic Affairs Finance Bill Sub Committee European Union Sub-Committee G - Social Policy and Consumer Affairs Intergovernmental Organisations Committee Science & Technology Science & Technology Sub-Committee I    Science & Technology Sub-Committee II     Session 2007-08 Communications Inquiry into Government Communications - Inquiry into Government Communications; Ms Teresa Perchard, Public Policy Director, and Ms Fiona Monroe, Information Officer, Citizens Advice Bureau; Sir Gus O’Donnell KCB, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, and Mr Michael Ellam, Prime Minister’s Spokesman (22 October 2008) Inquiry into Government Communications - Mr Nick Gurr, Director-General of Media Communications, Ministry of Defence, Mr Ian Hargreaves, Strategic Communications Director, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Ms Sian Jarvis, Director-General of Communications, Department of Health (15 October 2008) Inquiry into Government Communications - Ms Jackie Ashley, Columnist, The Guardian, Mr Benedict Brogan, Political Editor, the Daily Mail, and Mr Steve Richards, Columnist, The Independent; Mr Bob Ledwidge, Editor, Regional Political Programmes, BBC; Mr David Ottewell, Chief Correspondent, Manchester Evening News; and Mr Chris Fisher, Political Editor, Eastern Daily Press (8 October 2008) Inquiry into Government Communications - Mr Adam Boulton, Political Editor, Sky News, Mr Tom Bradby, Political Editor, ITV and Mr Nick Robinson, Chief Political Editor, BBC; Mr Tony Collins, Executive Editor, Computer Weekly, Mr Frank Gardner, Security Correspondent, BBC, Mr Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor, The Times and Mr Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor, Sky News (16 July 2008) Inquiry into Government Communications - Sir Robert Phillis; Mr Howell James CBE, former Permanent Secretary, Government Communications and Mr Alan Bishop, Chief Executive, Central Office of Information (9 July 2008) Constitution Meeting with the Lord Chief Justice and Sir Igor Judge QC (9 July 2008) Economic Affairs Draft Apprenticeships Bill - The Lord Young of Norwood Green; and Mr Stephen Marston (4 November 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy -Malcolm Wicks, MP, Minister of State for Energy, Mr Simon Virley, Head of the Renewable Energy and Innovation Unit, and Ms Tera Allas, Chief Economist Energy Group, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 15th July 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Mr Alistair Buchanan, Chief Executive, and Mr Stephen Smith, Managing Director, Networks, Ofgem; Mr Steve Read, Investment Manager, and Ms Coralie Laurencin, Associate, Climate Change Capital; and Dr Karsten Neuhoff, University of Cambridge (8th July 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Ms Vivienne Cox, Executive Vice President and CEO of Alternative Energy, BP; and Mr James Smith, Chairman, Shell UK ; and Mr Neil Hirst, Director for Energy Technology and R&D, International Energy Agency (1st July 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Mr Chris Bennett, Future Transmission Networks Manager, and Ms Nicola Pitts, Head of UK and EU Public Affairs, National Grid, and Dr David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Technologies Institute. (24 June 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Dr Keith Maclean, Mr Sarwjit Sambhi and Mr Bob Taylor Professor Gordon Mackerron (17 June 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Mr Philip Wolfe, Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association; Ms Maria McCaffery, Chief Executive, British Wind Energy Association; and Mr William Heller, Chief Executive, Falck Renewables Limited (10 June 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Mr Campbell Dunford, Chief Executive, Dr John Constable, Director of Policy and Research, Renewable Energy Foundation (3 June 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Mr Benet Northcote, Chief Policy Adviser, Greenpeace, Dr Tim Jenkins, Economics Campaigner, Mr Dave Timms, Economics Campaigner, and Ms Robin Webster, Senior Energy and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth; and from Mr Malcolm Keay, Oxford Institute fro Energy Studies (13 May 2008) The Economics of Renewable Energy - Professor Paul Ekins and Dr Neil Strachan. King's College London; and Professor AbuBakr Bahaj, Southampton Univeristy, Professor Tony Bridgwater, Aston University, and Dr Simon Watson, Loughborough University (6 May 2008)   European Union October European Council – Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP, Minister for Europe, and Andrew Dalgleish, Head Europe Strategy Group, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (11 November 2008) June European Council – Mr Jim Murphy MP, Minister for Europe, and Mr Ananda Guha, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (15 July 2008) The European Security Strategy - Mr Dan Smith OBE, Secretary-General, International Alert (22nd May 2008) Sub-Committee G - Social Policy and Consumer Affairs Cross-border healthcare - Medical Defence Union and Medical Protection Society (6 November 2008) Cross-border healthcare - Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP (30 October 2008) Intergovernmental Organisations The Report on Controlling the Global Spread of Infectious Diseases has been published - no further transcripts of evidence are now available   Science and Technology Sub-Committee II Genomic Medicine: Dr Geoff Smith – Senior Director, Illumina Mr Clive Brown – Director of Informatics and IT , Oxford Nanopore Technologies Mr Kevin McKernan – Senior Director of Scientific Operations, Applied Biosystems Dr Richard Durbin – Head of Informatics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Professor Janet Thornton, CBE – Director, European Bioinformatics Institute Dr Ewan Birney – Senior Scientist, European Bioinformatics Institute Professor Anthony Brookes – Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of Leicester (5 November 2008) Genomic Medicine: Mr Stephen Haddrill – Director General, Association of British Insurers (ABI), Ms Sarah Veale – Head of Equality and Employment Rights, Trades Union Congress (TUC), Professor David Johns - Chairman of the Genetics and Insurance Committee (GAIC), Mr Michael Harrison – Barrister specialist in clinical negligence and member of the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) (29 October 2008) Genomic Medicine: Professor Andrew Hattersley – Professor of Molecular Medicine, Peninsula Medical School Professor Sir Bruce Ponder – Professor of Oncology and Director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Professor William McKenna – Professor of Cardiology, University College London; Director, Centre for Cardiology in the Young, the Heart Hospital,Dr Kári Stefánsson – President and Chief Executive Office of deCode b) Mr Brian Whitley – Managing Director, Genetic Health, Dr Paul Jenkins – Managing Team, Genetic Health, Mr Alistair Hall – Director, Medichecks, Dr Kári Stefánsson – President and Chief Executive Office of deCode (22 October 2008) Genomic Medicine: Professor Rory Collins – Chief Executive Officer and Principal Investigator, UK Biobank Professor Andrew Morris – Professor of Diabetic Medicine, University of Dundee and Chairman of the Generation Scotland Scientific Committee Professor David Porteous - Chair of Human Molecular Genetics & Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Founder of Generation Scotland Professor Julian Sampson – Head of Medical Genetics, University of Cardiff (15 October 2008) Genomic Medicine: Professor Sir John Bell – Chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR), President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University; Professor Sir Alex Markham - Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds (Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine), Chair of the Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) Translational Medicine Board, and Chair of NHS Connecting for Health's Research Capability Programme. (16 July 2008) Genomic Medicine: Dr Helen Wallace – Executive Director, Gene Watch UKMr Alastair Kent – Director, Genetic Interest GroupProfessor Peter Farndon – Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Director of the UK Genetic Testing NetworkMrs Jacquie Westwood – Director of Specialised Services for South East London, Bexley Primary Care Trust (9 July 2008) Genomic Medicine: Sir John Sulston – Acting Chairman of the Human Genetics Commission; Dr Frances Flinter – Clinical Director and Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Genetics Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; and member of the Human Genetics Commission; Dr Christine Patch – Genetic Counsellor Manager of the Clinical Genetics Dept of Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; and member of the Human Genetics Commission; Professor Albert Weale – Professor of Government at the University of Essex; and Chairman of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics; Mr Stuart Hogarth – Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough; and member of the Society for Genomics Policy and Population Health (SGPPH)(2 July 2008) Genomic Medicine: Dr Rob Elles – Chairman of the British Society of Human Genetics and Director of Molecular Genetics, National Genetics Reference Laboratory and Regional Molecular Genetics Service; Professor Richard Trembath – Head, Division of Medical Genetics, Kings College London (past president of BSHG); Dr Ron Zimmern – Executive Director of PHG Foundation (formerly the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge); Professor Martin Bobrow – Head, Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge University (25 June 2008) Genomic Medicine: Professor Peter Furness, Vice-President, Royal College of Pathologists Dr John Crolla, Chair, Joint Committee on Medical Genetics, also representing the Royal College of Physicians, Dr Imran Rafi, Royal College of General Practitioners,Professor Stephen O'Rahilly FRS FMedSci,Professor of Clinical Biochemistry & Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Univeristy of Cambridge (11 June 2008) Genomic Medicine: Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust Professor Peter Donnelly, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Chair of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Professor Herbie Newell, Director of Clinical and Translational Research & Research Strategy, Cancer Research UK, Professor Peter Parker, Head of Cancer Research UK London Research Institute Laboratory and Honorary Professor UCL, Professor Finbarr Cotter, Professor of Experimental Haematology, Barts and the London School of Medicine (representing the Leukaemia Research Fund) (21 May 2008) Genomic Medicine: Professor Sally Davies, Director-General, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of HealthDr Mark Bale, Deputy Director of Scientific Development and Bioethics, Department of HealthDiane Payne, Team Leader, NHS Genetics Team, Department of HealthMr Paul Williams, Head of DIUS Research Council UnitDr Sivasegaram Manimaaran, Innovation Policy Directorate, DIUS ( 7 May 2008) Genomic Medicine:Dr Frances Rawle, Board Programme Manager for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, MRC Dr Colin Miles, Head of Molecular and Cell Biology Branch, BBSRC Professor Joyce Tait, University of Edinburgh, Scientific Adviser to the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN) (representing ESRC) Professor John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter and Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS) (representing AHRC) (30 April 2008)   Session 2006-07

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