Public evidence
As the UK’s leading publicly funded medical research organisation, the MRC frequently submits evidence relating to biomedical research to inquiries and consultations by government departments, Select Committees of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and to other organisations.
Submissions to Parliament and other organisations since 2001
Click on the relevant link below to see full lists of Submissions to Consultations and Inquiries for that financial year. A link is provided to the submission, if it is available. If the submission has been made jointly with another organisation you may be redirected; for instance all joint RCUK submissions are published on the RCUK website.
For pre-2001 submissions, please contact:
MRC Information Officer
Email: corporate@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
The full transcripts of written or oral evidence relating to our parliamentary submissions can be found on the Committees section of the Parliamentary website.
Most recent submissions
Requesting Body |
Title of Consultation/Inquiry |
Information Commissioners Office |
Consultation on the anonymisation code of practice (August 2012) |
Government Equalities Office |
Equality Act 2010 – employer liability for harassment of employees by third parties: A consultation (August 2012) |
Government Equalities Office |
Equality Act 2010 – employer liability for harassment of employees by third parties: A consultation (August 2012) |
House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee |
Subcommittee Inquiry into higher education in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) (July 2012) |
House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee |
Sports and exercise science and medicine: building on the Olympic legacy to improve the nation’s health (July 2012) |
House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee |
Scrutiny session on the Research Councils (July 2012) |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Pre-appointment hearing with the Government's preferred candidate for Chair of the Medical Research Council (July 2012) |
Welsh Government |
Consultation on the development of an innovation strategy in Wales |
2012-2013 submissions
Requesting Body |
Title of Consultation/Inquiry |
Higher Education Commission |
Postgraduate Education Inquiry call for evidence (April 2012) |
House of Commons Health Committee |
Government’s Alcohol Strategy: call for evidence (May 2012) |
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges |
Project on Obesity (June 2012) |
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee |
Sports and exercise science and medicine: building on the Olympic legacy to improve the nation’s health (June 2012) |
Scottish Government |
A Scotland-wide Data Linkage Framework for Statistics and Research: Consultation Paper on the Aims and Guiding Principles (June 2012) |
2011-2012 submissions
Requesting Body |
Title of Consultation/Inquiry | |
Intellectual Property Office |
Consultation on proposals to change UK’s copyright system (March 2012) | |
Ministry of Justice |
Call for evidence on the European Commission proposals for a regulation setting out a general EU framework for data protection (March 2012) | |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Science and Technology Committee Inquiry: Bridging the “valley of death”: improving the commercialisation of research (February 2012) | |
Home Office |
Consultation on EU directive 2010/63: Draft Code of Practice on care and accommodation and transposition of annex III (January 2012) | |
House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee |
Inquiry into the Government’s drugs policy call for written evidence (January 2012) | |
Government Office for Science |
Science and Engineering Assurance Review of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (December 2011) | |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Science and Technology Committee Inquiry: Bridging the “valley of death”: improving the commercialisation of research (February 2012) | |
Home Office |
Consultation on EU directive 2010/63: Draft Code of Practice on care and accommodation and transposition of annex III (January 2012) | |
House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee |
Inquiry into the Government’s drugs policy call for written evidence (January 2012) | |
Government Office for Science |
Science and Engineering Assurance Review of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (December 2011) | |
Home Office Migration Advisory Committee |
call for evidence on the level of the 2012/13 annual limit on Tier 2 and associated policies (December 2011) | |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Inquiry on science and international development | |
House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee |
Inquiry into higher education in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) | |
Cabinet Office |
Consultations on Making Open Data Real and Data Policy for a Public Data Corporation (October 2011) | |
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales |
Consultation on the Future Structure of Universities in Wales (October 2011) | |
REF2014 |
Consultation on draft panel criteria and working methods (October 2011) | |
Office for Life Sciences |
Review, Developing the Evidence Base (September 2011) | |
UK Border Agency |
Consultation on Employment Related Settlement | |
European Commission |
Consultation on Scientific Information in the Digital Age (September 2011) | |
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee |
Inquiry on the Role and function of departmental Chief Scientific Advisors (September 2011) | |
Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales |
Stakeholder consultation on Science for Wales: A strategic agenda for science in Wales (September 2011) | |
Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Lifting the barriers to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: a strategy for Scotland (August 2011) | |
Royal Society |
Science as a public enterprise: opening up scientific information (August 2011) | |
House of Commons Health Committee |
Inquiry on Public Health (June 2011) | |
Government Office for Science |
Science and Analysis review of Department for Work and Pensions (June 2011) | |
Ministry of Justice |
Draft Defamation Bill Consultation (June 2011) | |
Nuffield Council on Bioethics |
Consultation on Emerging Technologies (June 2011) | |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips (May 2011) | |
European Commission |
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European Commission |
Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation Funding | |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Spending Review 2010 (April 2011) | |
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) |
Consultation document on Doctoral Degree characteristics (April 2011) | |
2010-2011 submissions
Requesting Body |
Title of Consultation/Inquiry |
Department of Health |
Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in England (March 2011) |
Independent review |
Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (March 2011) |
House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee |
The Future of Higher Education (March 2011) |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Inquiry into Peer Review (operation and effectiveness) (March 2011) |
Home Office |
Home Office review of research and development relevant to forensic science (March 2011) |
House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS |
Inquiry on HIV and AIDS (February 2011) |
Forensic Science Service Inquiry (February 2011) | |
Foods Standards Agency |
Revised Food Standards Agency Strategy for 2010 to 2015 (February 2011) |
European Commission |
Consultation on the pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Consultation on Defra’s Information Strategy |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Inquiry on the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) (January 2011) |
Inquiry into Technology Innovation Centres | |
Government Office for Science |
Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees: a consultation by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (December 2010) |
Quality Assurance Agency |
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Government Office for Science |
GO-Science: Science and Engineering Assurance (SEA) Review of DFID (November 2010) |
Higher Education Funding Council for England |
HEFCE Review of JISC (November 2010) |
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee |
The use of behaviour change interventions to achieve policy goals (October 2010) |
Ministry of Justice |
Call for Evidence on the data protection legislative framework (October 2010) |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Natural Environment White Paper - An invitation to shape the nature of England (October 2010) |
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee |
Inquiry into Scientific Advice and Evidence in Emergencies (September 2010) |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution - Topics for a future study (August 2010) |
Academy of Medical Sciences |
Review of the regulation and governance of medical research (August 2010) |
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills |
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Academy of Medical Sciences |
Review of regulation and governance of medical research: Call for evidence (June 2010) |
Scottish Funding Council |
Knowledge exchange: funding from the Horizon Fund from academic year 2010-11 (June 2010) |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution study: the environmental impacts of demographic change in the UK (April 2010) |