Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Lord Drayson and Twitter
Lord Drayson says he supports a move to re-establish the old House of Commons Science and Technology committee. The science minister was reacting to concerns that his brief needed specific oversight now that it was in the new DBIS super-department. Some MPs are worried that science policy could get lost in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. But speaking at the Paris air show, Lord Drayson sought to reassure MPs about government intentions.
The controversial peer's dealings with Downing Street, Whitehall and the Labour Party have been under scrutiny since when, as Dr Paul Drayson, he made donations totalling £100,000 to Labour funds during 2001 and 2002. Shortly afterwards PowderJect was handed a £32.5million Government contract to supply smallpox vaccine. Made a peer by Tony Blair in 2004, Lord Drayson joined the Government the following year and became Gordon Brown's science minister last October. However no research lab was built. The report says it is unlikely that the facility will ever materialise and that future state development contracts should ensure companies are held to their commitments.
IMO: Not only are the above two comments of interest, but he apparently uses Twitter. I would have thought that there would have been a lot to twitter about, but I will leave it to those who twitter. I also gather that there is a surprisingly small number of people who regularly use Twitter.
The controversial peer's dealings with Downing Street, Whitehall and the Labour Party have been under scrutiny since when, as Dr Paul Drayson, he made donations totalling £100,000 to Labour funds during 2001 and 2002. Shortly afterwards PowderJect was handed a £32.5million Government contract to supply smallpox vaccine. Made a peer by Tony Blair in 2004, Lord Drayson joined the Government the following year and became Gordon Brown's science minister last October. However no research lab was built. The report says it is unlikely that the facility will ever materialise and that future state development contracts should ensure companies are held to their commitments.
IMO: Not only are the above two comments of interest, but he apparently uses Twitter. I would have thought that there would have been a lot to twitter about, but I will leave it to those who twitter. I also gather that there is a surprisingly small number of people who regularly use Twitter.
# posted by uv : 6:10 PM
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