The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government.

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell chairs meetings where advice is being developed.

Sir Patrick Vallance, the Chief Scientific Adviser and head of the Government Office for Science, chairs meetings reporting its advice to government.

The advisory functions of the CST had previously been performed by the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD), from 1976 to 1987, and the Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST) from 1987 to 1993.

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