The Committee deliberated.

Draft Report, Office of Science and Innovation: Scrutiny Report 2005 and 2006, proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the Chairman's draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by

paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 71 read and agreed to.

Summary read and agreed to.

Abbreviations read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Sixth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee

be reported to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That embargoed copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the

provisions of Standing Order No. 134.

[Adjourned till Wednesday 18 April at Nine o'clock.