Parl’y Office of Science & Technology – POST notes

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST, for short) produces useful and interesting briefing notes on various subjects which may be of interest to Members and staffers. POST is the UK Parliament’s in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. Their aim is to inform parliamentary debate.

More information and the full list of POSTnotes can be found on the main POST site, here. They are also published on the popular Medium platform – follow POST here.

The subject areas cover:

  • Biological sciences and health
  • Environment and energy
  • Physical sciences and IT
  • Science policy
  • Science, technology and the developing world

All publications (since 1995) are available in PDF format. To receive email copies of POST’s publications, email post@parliament.uk, with ‘Join POST mailing list’ as the subject.