Commenting on today’s [Tuesday] House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report into the National Programme for IT in the NHS, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb said:

This site was created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to provide coverage of science and technology issues in the 2008 American presidential elections. It provides free access to news stories, statements and full text reports assessing and comparing the candidates positions on science and technology.

"Science could be lost in a black hole" if the government fails to establish a House of Commons science and technology committee, say MPs.

The House of Commons has approved the re-establishment of the parliamentary Science and Technology Committee.

This site provides free access to the full text of House of Commons Library research paper 09/29 which was published in March 2009. The 40 page report provides an excellent introduction to controversies concerning levels of pay for members in the Uk House of Commons. It includes a historical overview and statistical facts about levels of MPs pay from 1911-2008. It also includes discussion of the n...

The Independent today carries an interview with Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, who is also the only scientist in the House of Commons: Julian Huppert, a research biochemist who became the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge at the last election, said he was alarmed at the lack of scientific knowledge among colleagues. In

Coalition pledge to reduce Commons seats to 600 to "cut cost of politics".

The NHS' obscene spending on the quack medicinal practice Homeopathy should to come to an end, MP's say. The House of Commons science and technology committee said using public money on the highly diluted remedies could not be justified. The cross-party group said there was no evidence beyond a placebo effect, when a patient gets better because of their belief that the treatment works. S...

Labour’s Shadow Home Office team have welcomed this morning’s damning report by the Commons Science and Technology Committee on the Tory-led government’s closure of the Forensic Science Service.

This, from the petitions site: "the concept is simple if the turn out is lower than 50% in any constituancy (sic) then no one is returned and the seat in the commons remains empty. We the people will then have an ongoing measure of how representative the house of commons really is and "none of the above" will be accurately represented". Can't say I thought it was a great idea until a cursory ...