The revived National Science and Technology Council has been downgraded from a Cabinet subcommittee to an “interministerial group”, the UK’s new science minister has confirmed.
In her first public appearance since her appointment, Nusrat Ghani told MPs that she welcomed the return of the cross-governmental committee on science that was created by Boris Johnson in June 2021 but scrapped soon after Liz Truss became prime minister. On 12 October, however, it was announced that a “new National Science and Technology Council” would be led by the chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng “with responsibility for driving an ambitious UK science and technology strategy”.
