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The Big Tent Ideas Festival is taking place at the new Assembly Festival Garden on Saturday July 10
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Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman
Norfolk MP George Freeman has been reported to the Cabinet Office for further breaches of the ministerial code - after taking up four roles without first seeking advice.
Mr Freeman, who previously served as a minister for life sciences and as transport minister, said he had apologised profusely and that he had made an error in misunderstanding the process.
And, in the course of discussions over that breach, Mr Freeman told the committee of other roles he held with Ryse Hydrogen, Resume Foundation, Reform for Resilience and Haemcro, which he had not sought advice for.
Lord Pickles
I know from first-hand experience that Norfolk boasts world-leading science and technology expertise like the Norwich Research Park (NRP) with huge opportunities to create the companies and jobs of tomorrow and export our services to the world’s fastest developing markets.
The NRP with the world famous John Ines centre is one of the world’s most important clusters in the science of food, nutrition, medicine and energy systems. Indeed, it was instrumental in the Covid genome sequencing effort.
We have the chance to make Norfolk a genuine innovation county creating companies spinning out from the NRP, just as Cambridge has done (but without the two-hour traffic jams which now gridlocks Cambridge each workday morning).
Time to unleash Norfolk as a science and innovation county edp24.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edp24.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.