The Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee was a select committee of the

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in the

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. The remit of the Committee was to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the

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, any associated public bodies and the government office for science. The committee was dissolved on 30 September 2009 and replaced by the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee following the merging of the

into the new

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.Hansard - 25 June 2009: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes)
/ref> The committee was officially replaced by the

Science and Technology Select Committee The Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The original Science and Technology Committee was abolished upon the creation of the Innovation, Univ ...

, which was re-established on 1 October 2009 and is made up of the same membership as the old Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills select committee.

Membership

The membership of the committee at its time of dissolution were: Source
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Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives

Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee
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