SZ/CACST - Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology
Reference code
SZ/CACST
Level of description
Series
Title
Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology
Date/s
1967-1970
Quantity & Format
5 boxes
3 files
3 files
Subject
Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology
Science and state
Science and state
Scope and content
Minutes, papers and correspondence, 1967-1970.
The Council was a Cabinet-level body established in January 1967 to "Advise the Government on the most effective national strategy for the use and development of our scientific and technological resources" [terms of reference, AC(67)1] and to avoid an "institutional split between science and technology" [Philip Gummett Scientists in Whitehall, Manchester University Press, 1980] consequent upon the formation of the Department of Education and Science’s Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) and the Ministry of Technology’s Advisory Council on Technology. The Council was free to set up ad hoc working parties as it saw fit. While the membership was drawn from the two Advisory Councils, members were appointed in a personal capacity and not as representatives of departmental or other interests.
The Council was chaired by SZ, then the Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government, throughout its existence. The founder members were Sir Eric Ashby, Professor P.M.S. Blackett, Dr Alan Cottrell, Frank Cousins (who also chaired the Advisory Council on Technology), Sir Harrie Massey (Chairman of the Council for Scientific Policy), Dr Fred Dainton, Dr E.F. Jones ( of Mullard, and the Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology), Professor A.B. Pippard, Sir Hugh Tett, Professor Bruce Williams, and R.D. Young (of Alfred Herbert Ltd). In 1969 Sir Frank Kearton, Professor R.C.O. Matthews, Sir Michael Perrin, Dr Larry Rotherham and Lord Rothschild were appointed to the Council, replacing Pippard, Tett and Williams. In 1970 Ashby, Cousins and Massey were replaced by G.B.R. Feilden, Sir Alastair Pilkington, Len Murray (of the TUC), and Professor William Paton.
Just as the General Election of 1964 saw the demise of the ACSP, so that of 1970 brought to an end the short life of the CACST.
Correspondence relating to the CACST is to be found in files in Series SZ/CSA.
A typescript list of the contents of this series is available for consultation in the Archives Department.
The Council was a Cabinet-level body established in January 1967 to "Advise the Government on the most effective national strategy for the use and development of our scientific and technological resources" [terms of reference, AC(67)1] and to avoid an "institutional split between science and technology" [Philip Gummett Scientists in Whitehall, Manchester University Press, 1980] consequent upon the formation of the Department of Education and Science’s Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) and the Ministry of Technology’s Advisory Council on Technology. The Council was free to set up ad hoc working parties as it saw fit. While the membership was drawn from the two Advisory Councils, members were appointed in a personal capacity and not as representatives of departmental or other interests.
The Council was chaired by SZ, then the Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government, throughout its existence. The founder members were Sir Eric Ashby, Professor P.M.S. Blackett, Dr Alan Cottrell, Frank Cousins (who also chaired the Advisory Council on Technology), Sir Harrie Massey (Chairman of the Council for Scientific Policy), Dr Fred Dainton, Dr E.F. Jones ( of Mullard, and the Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology), Professor A.B. Pippard, Sir Hugh Tett, Professor Bruce Williams, and R.D. Young (of Alfred Herbert Ltd). In 1969 Sir Frank Kearton, Professor R.C.O. Matthews, Sir Michael Perrin, Dr Larry Rotherham and Lord Rothschild were appointed to the Council, replacing Pippard, Tett and Williams. In 1970 Ashby, Cousins and Massey were replaced by G.B.R. Feilden, Sir Alastair Pilkington, Len Murray (of the TUC), and Professor William Paton.
Just as the General Election of 1964 saw the demise of the ACSP, so that of 1970 brought to an end the short life of the CACST.
Correspondence relating to the CACST is to be found in files in Series SZ/CSA.
A typescript list of the contents of this series is available for consultation in the Archives Department.
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