Lord Drayson featured as the special guest this week on BBC Radio 4's Leading Edge programme with Geoff Watts.

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Lord Drayson, defence procurement minister, said recently the Army used RG31s in Bosnia, but took them out of commission due to maintenance problems.

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Defence minister Lord Drayson, who also attended the sunset closure ceremony, said it was "vitally important" to maintain the building's heritage not just for the RAF, but for the country.

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Lord Drayson called on the government to work with the transport industry to get agreement that all transport companies will support importing animals for scientific research so "people can not be picked off".

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Lord Drayson, former science minister who set up the Office for Life Sciences, told the Today programme's Evan Davis that "we need to recognize that it is not possible to develop new medicines without doing research".

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With India and China realising that their futures also depend on their investment in science, Lord Drayson's argument is that it may well be time for the research community to think about where its research strengths lie, and to prioritise investment in those areas.

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