1st Report - Life Sciences Industrial Strategy: Who's driving the bus?

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government welcomes the Committee's report and states that many of its recommendations have been "superseded by Government action", while declining to set up a single new governing body or a statutory Office for Industrial Strategy.

• On governance, the government says it "strongly agrees" that a strategic partnership with the sector is crucial, and points to the Life Sciences Council it has established for this purpose.
• It does not accept a single Life Sciences Governing Body, stating that the Council will play "a large part" of that role and that "setting up another body would be duplicative".
• On a new statutory Office for Industrial Strategy, it says this "would therefore be duplicative", pointing to a planned independent, non-statutory Industrial Strategy Council.
• On a specific commitment, it states it "will invite a senior HM Treasury representative to join the LSC". It adds that the next phase of implementation priorities will be announced "later this year".

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