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Science, policy and government

The Royal Society is the UK's leading independent scientific body.  As well as providing an authoritative voice and leadership for UK science, we provide objective advice for government and policymakers on science, its relationship with society and science education.

Our interests range from policy issues affecting science, such as the funding of university research, or intellectual property rights for scientific research, to public policy issues with a scientific aspect, such as GM foods, climate change and nanotechnologies.

What's new?

• Strategy options for the UK's separated plutonium  (21 September 2007)

• Response to HFEA consultation on human-animal embryos in research (23 July 2007)

• Biodiversity-climate interactions: summary of a meeting held at the Royal Society (19 July 2007)

• Response to the draft climate change bill (18 July 2007)

• Response to the Scrutiny Committee's consultation on the draft Human Tissues and Embryos Bill (4 July 2007)

• Synthetic biology: call for views (22 June 2007)
  
• Letter to Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the management of separated plutonium (22 May 2007)
• International dialogue on safety of manufactured nanomaterials (18 May 2007)
  
• Business and nanotechnologies (18 March 2007)
  
• Submission to the British National Space Centre consultation on the UK civil Space strategy 2007-2010 (23 April 2007)