The Council for Scientific Policy , 1965–1972, was a council set up in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State for Education and Science . The council advised the secretary of state on all aspects of his responsibilities with reference to science policy.
History
The main purpose of the Council for Scientific Policy[ 1] Advisory Council on Scientific Policy . The council was instructed to build a constructive relationship with other research councils, and the Ministry of Technology and the Royal Society . The secretariat was run by the Department of Education and Science (DES).
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Most members were eminent scientists drawn from universities and industry. A prominent member was Derek Barton FRS , FRSE an organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate . Also included were assessors from the Medical Research Council and Agricultural Research Council , representatives from Department of Education and Science, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , and the University Grants Committee , the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Technology . The council's primary interest was research, carried out in universities and by the other research councils. The council had a number of committees, sub-committees and working parties. In 1972 the Council for Scientific Policy was wound up and most of its functions passed to the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . In 1992, responsibility for scientific matters was transferred to the new Office of Science and Technology .
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