Council for Science and Technology

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Council for Science and Technology
Non-departmental public body overview

Formed	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Preceding Non-departmental public body	Advisory Council on Science and Technology
Jurisdiction	United Kingdom
Status	Active
Headquarters	London, England
Non-departmental public body executives	Nancy Rothwell Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser
Website	www.cst.gov.uk

The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government. Its role is to give advice on issues that cut across government departments to the Prime Minister, the First Minister of Scotland and the First Minister for Wales. It was established in 1993 and relaunched in 2003. It is based in London.

The Council has 17 independent members and two co-chairs. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell chairs meetings where advice is being developed. Sir Patrick Vallance, the Chief Scientific Adviser and head of the Government Office for Science, chairs meetings reporting its advice to government.

The advisory functions of the CST had previously been performed by the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD), from 1976 to 1987, and the Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST) from 1987 to 1993.

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"How research was commissioned and funded", The BSE Inquiry Report, vol.2 pt.1 sect.6

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