The chief scientific adviser will lead a new technology council, designed to ensure British innovations benefit the nation.
Sir Patrick, who has been at the heart of the government's pandemic policy, is to take up new additional rolesPrime Minister Boris Johnson has created new roles for Sir Patrick Vallance and established new science units, in a bid to make the UK a so-called"science superpower".
Sir Patrick will lead the new Office for Science and Technology Strategy, which is tasked with assessing which emerging technologies the nation should back for"strategic advantage". The prime minister is also establishing and chairing the new National Science & Technology Council, which will decide the direction of the country's use of science and technology.Alongside his current roles as the government's chief scientific adviser and head of the Government Office for Science, which threw him into the heart of thepandemic response, Sir Patrick will also take up another new role as the national technology adviser.
The new roles are part of government plans to build on"the success of the best UK science throughout the pandemic and beyond" and establish the country as a"science superpower".The prime minster is asking the whole of government to work with Sir Patrick in these new roles to take insights from the vaccination programme and apply them to other key areas.
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