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Chief scientist will also be director general for science, technology, analysis, research and strategy

Patrick Vallance aims to address "misconceptions" about science advice

Track-and-trace app being trialled now will do "heavy lifting" once social-distancing measures are lifted, science adviser says

Ramping up testing now a priority for ‘data-driven’ strategy, chief scientist tells MPs

Covid-19 strategy aims to reduce the peak of the outbreak, “not to suppress it completely", Patrick Vallance says

Sir Patrick Vallance also said he wanted half of all fast streamers to have science backgrounds

Sir Ian Boyd gives warning days before his departure as Defra chief scientist

Henderson will succeed Sir Ian Boyd in October

Appointment comes more than a year after communities department advertised for a chief scientific adviser

McLean was awarded damehood for services to mathematical biology and advice to government

MP says ongoing vacancy exposed in wake of Grenfell tragedy is "astounding" a year after search began