Science and Technology Committee
Lords select committee, since 31 January 1980. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Science and Technology Committee is appointed to consider science and technology. It does this principally through undertaking inquiries.
Inquiries
- Session with UK Research and Innovation (30 June 2026)
- Innovation in the NHS: personalised medicine and AI (3 March 2026)
- Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (24 February 2026 to 24 March 2026)
- One off session on physics teachers (5 January 2026)
- Forensic science: follow-up (3 November 2025)
- Former CEO of UK Research and Innovation (21 October 2025)
- President of the Royal Society (29 August 2025)
- Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry (20 March 2025)
- Maths education (20 February 2025)
- The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages (7 January 2025)
- Science visa policy (17 December 2024 to 28 January 2025)
- Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) (5 November 2024)
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser (12 September 2024 to 12 September 2024)
- Lessons from the COVID-19 vaccine rollout (5 September 2024 to 4 March 2025)
- Engineering biology (28 March 2024 to 28 April 2025)
- University Spin-out Companies (11 March 2024 to 5 March 2025)
- Ministerial session: Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (20 February 2024 to 12 March 2024)
- Engineering biology (20 February 2024 to 20 February 2024)
- Universities’ funding model (20 February 2024 to 4 March 2025)
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser (8 February 2024 to 13 February 2024)
- Long-duration energy storage (26 July 2023 to 22 January 2025)
- Independent review into UK clinical trials (18 May 2023 to 4 March 2025)
- Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (22 March 2023 to 4 March 2025)
- The effects of artificial light and noise on human health (30 January 2023 to 9 May 2024)
- Clinical academics in the NHS (18 November 2022 to 28 April 2023)
- People and skills in UK science, technology, engineering and mathematics (20 July 2022 to 8 September 2023)
- Delivering a UK science and technology strategy (10 February 2022 to 7 June 2023)
- Nature-based solutions for climate change (9 June 2021 to 9 February 2023)
- Government R&D Funding in 2021 (24 March 2021 to 4 March 2025)
- Role of batteries and fuel cells in achieving Net Zero (3 March 2021 to 23 November 2022)
- The contribution of innovation Catapults to delivering the R&D Roadmap (11 November 2020 to 20 May 2022)
- The science of COVID-19 (7 May 2020 to 2 March 2021)
- Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living (25 July 2019 to 20 October 2021)
- Science research funding in universities inquiry (8 May 2019 to 8 May 2019)
- Forensic science inquiry (23 May 2018 to 23 May 2018)
- Off-site manufacture for construction (13 March 2018 to 13 March 2018)
- Life Sciences and the Industrial Strategy (18 July 2017 to 18 July 2017)
- Science and Technology and the Industrial Strategy inquiry (27 February 2017 to 27 February 2017)
- Priorities for Nuclear Research and Technologies (25 January 2017 to 25 January 2017)
- Autonomous vehicles inquiry (13 September 2016 to 13 September 2016)
- EU membership and UK science follow-up (13 July 2016 to 6 July 2016)
- Government funding of international development r&d (30 June 2016 to 30 June 2016)
- Future of Innovate UK inquiry (19 May 2016 to 19 May 2016)
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser (9 December 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Relationship between EU membership and UK science inquiry (9 December 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Genetically modified insects inquiry (20 July 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Nuclear fusion (17 July 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- The Dowling Review (7 July 2015 to 9 December 2015)
- Resilience of electricity infrastructure inquiry (22 July 2014 to 21 July 2014)
- Behaviour Change follow-up (6 May 2014 to 6 May 2014)
- International STEM students (16 January 2014 to 16 January 2014)
- Scientific Infrastructure (24 May 2013 to 24 May 2013)
- Open Access (11 January 2013 to 11 January 2013)
- Regenerative Medicine (26 July 2012 to 13 March 2014)
- Sports and exercise science and medicine: building on the Olympic legacy to improve the nation’s health (22 May 2012 to 4 December 2013)
- Science and Heritage (21 December 2011 to 21 December 2011)
- Higher Education in STEM subjects (13 September 2011 to 13 September 2011)
- Chief Scientific Advisers (20 July 2011 to 20 July 2011)
- Nuclear Research and Development Capabilities (17 March 2011 to 17 March 2011)
- Public Procurement (22 October 2010 to 22 October 2010)
Organisations it has heard from most
- Imperial College London (14)
- University College London (13)
- University of Oxford (12)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (11)
- University of Cambridge (9)
- Department of Health and Social Care (7)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (6)
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (5)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (5)
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (5)
- King's College London (5)
- Newcastle University (5)
- Royal Society (5)
- University of Birmingham (5)
- University of Manchester (5)