Advisory Council on Scientific Policy : Sir Henry Tizard, K.C.B., F.R.S

Abstract

MR. ARTHUR GREENWOOD, Lord Privy Seal, has announced in a Parliamentary written reply that it has been decided, in addition to the establishment of the Defence Research Policy Committee, to set up on the civil side an Advisory Council on Scientific Policy to advise the Lord President of the Council in the exercise of his responsibility for the formulation and execution of Government scientific policy. The chairman will be Sir Henry Tizard, who is also chairman of the Defence Committee, and the staffs of the two bodies will work in close association. The Council will include the heads of the principal Government scientific organisations and a number of scientific workers from outside the Government service. The former Scientific Advisory Committee will now cease to exist. The latter, it will be recalled, was set up in October 1940, and consisted of the president and secretaries of the Royal Society, and the secretaries of the chief Government research departments, under the chairmanship of Lord Hankey. In the new Advisory Council the choice of membership has been somewhat extended, but presumably its functions will be roughly the same.