§ 18. Dr. GibsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the ways in which National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts will help young inventors. [46330]
§ Mr. Chris SmithThe means by which NESTA is to achieve its objects are set out in the National Lottery Bill currently before Parliament. NESTA will help talented people in the fields of science, technology and the arts achieve their full potential; it will help people turn inventions and ideas into products or services which can be exploited in the market place, and NESTA will contribute to public knowledge of science, technology and the arts. Programmes under all these headings could help young inventors but it will be for NESTA's Chair and Trustees to decide which particular programmes to run.