Draft Report (The Government's review of the principles applying to the treatment of independent scientific advice provided to government), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 45 read and agreed to.

Annexes agreed to.

Papers were appended to the Report.

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

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

Written evidence was ordered to be reported to the House for printing with the Report together with written evidence reported and ordered to be published on 18 November.

[Adjourned till Wednesday 6 January at 9.00am.

List of written evidence

PR Letter 1  Professor David Nutt

PR Letter 1a  Professor David Nutt  

PR Letter 2  Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Home Secretary

PR Letter 3  Professor John Beddington  

PR Letter 4  Professor Paul Wiles  

PR 01  Professor G R Evans  

PR 02  The Physiological Society  

PR 03  Dr C Ian Ragan

PR 04  Environment Research Funders' Forum

PR 05  Professor David Albert Jones

PR 06  The Wellcome Trust

PR 07  Society of Biology

PR 08  Professor Leslie Iversen

PR 09  Institute of Food Science and Technology

PR 10  Institute of Physics

PR 11  Professor Neville Moray

PR 12  Dr Fiona Measham

PR 13  Royal Academy of Engineering

PR 14  Academy of Medical Sciences

PR 15  Sense About Science

PR 16  Campaign for Science & Engineering

PR 17  Professor David Nutt

PR 18  Dr Lionel R Milgrom

PR 19  Health Protection Agency

PR 20  Medical Research Council