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Genetically modified insects inquiry

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee, 20 July 2015 to 9 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 13 October 2015: Sir Roland Jackson, Executive Chair, Sciencewise, Professor Sue Hartley, President Elect, British Ecological Society, and Dr Sarah Hartley, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
  • 13 October 2015: Dr Paul Burrows, Executive Director, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Professor Tim Dafforn, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and Ian Meikle, Head of Agriculture and Food, Innovate UK
  • 20 October 2015: Professor Paulo Paes de Andrade, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Professor John Mumford, Professor of Natural Resource Management, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, and Dr Jack Stilgoe, Senior Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
  • 20 October 2015: Professor Rosemary Hails, Chair, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), Dr Jeremy Sweet, Environmental Consultant, Sweet Environmental Consultants, and Camilla Beech, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Oxitec Limited
  • 27 October 2015: Mr Matt Shardlow, Chief Executive, Buglife—The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, and Professor Jonathan Montgomery, Chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
  • 27 October 2015: Professor Luke Alphey, Head of Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Professor Paul Eggleston, Professor of Molecular Entomology, Keele University, and Professor Austin Burt, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, Imperial College London
  • 3 November 2015: Mr George Eustice MP, Minister of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment, Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), and Mr George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Life Sciences, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department of Health (DH)
  • 3 November 2015: Professor Christopher Whitty, Professor of Public and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 10 November 2015: Dr Ladislav Miko, Deputy Director-General of DG SANTE, European Commission