Chief Scientific Officer

HC Deb 26 January 1998 vol 305 c76W

Mr. Welsh

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he plans to fill the post of Chief Scientific Officer for Scotland. [21153]

Mr. Wilson

[holding answer 16 December 1997]: I expect to announce a decision, on the Garrick recommendation that the Government should consider filling the vacant post of Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of State, shortly.