abstract:Surrey Central was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, used in the 1997 and 2000 elections to elect a Member of Parliament for the 36th and 37th Parliaments, respectively. The electoral district was created, in 1996, as part of the expansion of the House of Commons of Canada from 295 to 301 seats, which gave British Columbia two additional seats.
America may have five times as many biotech firms as Britain, and scores of real products to show for its efforts (only one British firm, Chiroscience, actually has a drug on the market), but Britain has its own powerhouses around Oxford and Cambridge, and in Surrey and central Scotland, to compare with American clusters around Boston and San Francisco.