This page will bring you special papers which are published from time to time. Some will be publicly available, others are for P&SC members only - these will include extended versions of articles published in Science in Parliament and also many presentations (usually in either PDF or Powerpoint format) from P&SC meetings.

Report of a review conducted by Lord Oxburgh into Science and Technology Advice for Parliamentarians at the request of Andrew Miller

"Why No Thought for Food?", A UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Global Food Security, January 2010.
This is the final version of a Food Security Inquiry, formally launched in Parliament in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Room by the Agriculture and Food for Development All Party Group, before a packed audience on Wednesday 27 Jan. At the launch it was emphasised by the Co-Chair, David Curry MP, that the Food Security Inquiry had been initiated by Ian Gibson MP in October 2008 in the course of a post Discussion Meeting Dinner of the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee on the subject of Food Security, which he had Chaired, and is also subsequently referred to in his article in the SiP Spring 2010 edition.
More detailed information is available from http://agricultureandfoodfordevelopment.org/inquiry.html