Hughes Hall Centre for Biomedical Science in Society: 'Policy-making and evidence: decision-making in Whitehall and Westminster'

The Hughes Hall Centre for Biomedical Science in Society is organising an upcoming talk to take place in Lent Term, entitle "Policy-making and evidence: decision-making in Whitehall and Westminster".

Speaker: Mr David Howarth (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 1 February 2011

5.30pm, Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall

This talk will examine and analyse the ways in which evidence is used and mis-used in policy-making and in politics. It pays particular attention to the problems created by uncertainty, and to the differences between decision-making in Westminster and Whitehall.

Speaker Biography: Mr Howarth is a Reader in Private Law, Department of Land Economy, and Teaching Member of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. From 2005 until 2010, he was a Member of Parliament for Cambridge. During that time his roles included Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Liberal Democrat Shadow Energy Minister.

If you wish to reserve a seat at this lecture, please email Natasha Saltes on ns465@cam.ac.uk.