Likewise, he has been a member of the UK Government Pharmaceutical Industry Ministerial Strategy Working Group on Pharmaceuticals, adviser to the Cabinet Office on the Human Genome Project in 2001, a member of the Prime Minister's Task Force on the Competitiveness of the Pharmaceutical Industry (PICTF) and chairman of the Government Advisory Group on Genetics Research.
This is why PICTF (the Pharmaceutical Industry Competitiveness Task Force) reported that further steps needed to be taken to strengthen the competitiveness of the U K business environment for the pharmaceutical industry.