HC Deb 12 January 1994 vol 235 c232W
30. Mr. Kilfoyle

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement explaining the circumstances surrounding the departure of the chief scientist on 1 December.

Mr. Heseltine

The DTI's chief adviser on science and technology will be leaving the Department at the end of February 1994 for career reasons. He has done an excellent job, including making a major contribution to the refocusing of the DTI's innovation policy, and to the White Paper on science, engineering and techology published last May.