Science and Technology Committee (Commons)
Commons select committee, since 1 November 1978. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Science and Technology Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Office for Science and associated public bodies. It also examines science and technology policy across government and aims to ensure that policies and decision-making across departments are based on solid scientific evidence and advice.
Inquiries
- Technology-facilitated abuse (7 October 2026)
- Machinery of government changes (8 September 2026)
- The work of Innovate UK and the Regulatory Innovation Office (7 July 2026)
- Work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (29 June 2026)
- Low-energy computing (16 April 2026)
- Pre-appointment hearing: UK Research and Innovation chair (13 April 2026)
- Neuroscience and digital childhoods (24 March 2026)
- Pre-appointment hearing for the Chair of Ofcom (24 March 2026)
- Follow-up on Social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms inquiry (16 March 2026)
- Scientific research funding (24 February 2026)
- Social media age restrictions (9 February 2026)
- Work of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (26 January 2026)
- The science and regulation of hair and beauty products and treatments (2 December 2025)
- Digital inclusion and telecoms (1 December 2025)
- Work of the Secretary of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (24 November 2025)
- Data security across government (24 November 2025 to 29 April 2026)
- Information and data security across government and the work of the Information Commissioner (14 October 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Life sciences investment (2 October 2025 to 29 April 2026)
- Life sciences investment (16 September 2025)
- Work of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) (27 August 2025)
- Innovation and global food security (21 July 2025)
- The science and risks of nuclear monitoring and enrichment (23 June 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Asteroids and planetary defence (16 June 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser: Valedictory (10 June 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Work of Ofcom (14 May 2025)
- Phone theft (2 May 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Science diplomacy (3 April 2025)
- Pre-appointment hearing: Innovate UK chair (31 March 2025)
- Work of the Science Minister (5 February 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Digital centre of government (3 February 2025)
- AI and copyright (24 January 2025 to 9 March 2026)
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser and departmental Chief Scientific Advisers (21 January 2025 to 16 April 2026)
- Under the microscope (13 January 2025)
- Innovation, growth and the regions (6 December 2024 to 10 July 2026)
- Innovation and eradicating diseases (6 December 2024)
- Innovation showcase (4 December 2024)
- Work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (28 November 2024 to 16 April 2026)
- Social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms (20 November 2024 to 17 October 2025)
- Budget 2024 (5 November 2024 to 16 April 2026)
- Legacy Report - Parliament 2019-2024 (29 May 2024 to 30 May 2024)
- Commercialising Research (15 May 2024 to 28 May 2024)
- The UK and CERN (27 February 2024 to 20 March 2024)
- Harnessing the power of fungi (30 January 2024 to 28 May 2024)
- Work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (2 November 2023 to 27 December 2023)
- Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure (15 September 2023 to 28 May 2024)
- UK Astronomy (12 September 2023 to 28 May 2024)
- The work of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (27 June 2023 to 19 July 2023)
- Sir Patrick Vallance: Valedictory (26 April 2023 to 10 May 2023)
- Nurse, Grant and Tickell Reviews and Horizon Europe (11 April 2023 to 3 May 2023)
- Insect decline and UK food security (20 March 2023 to 28 May 2024)
- Commercialising quantum technologies (16 March 2023 to 28 May 2024)
- Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 (15 December 2022 to 28 May 2024)
- R&D Statistics (29 November 2022 to 21 December 2022)
- The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages (9 November 2022 to 28 May 2024)
- Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) (20 October 2022 to 28 May 2024)
- R&D Policy one-off (5 October 2022 to 26 October 2022)
- Evidence base of Parole Board decisions (31 August 2022 to 21 September 2022)
- Delivering nuclear power (19 July 2022 to 28 May 2024)
- My Science Inquiry (12 July 2022 to 13 April 2023)
- Pre-appointment hearing: Research England Executive Chair (7 July 2022 to 28 May 2024)
Organisations it has heard from most
- University of Oxford (24)
- Imperial College London (17)
- Department for Health and Social Care (12)
- University of Cambridge (12)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (11)
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (11)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (11)
- University College London (9)
- University of Edinburgh (9)
- University of Manchester (8)
- Department of Health and Social Care (7)
- Royal Society (7)
- Public Health England (6)
- Ofcom (5)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (4)