Decisions on which research to fund should rest with researchers through peer review rather than with ministers.
Named for Richard Haldane's 1918 committee. Frequently confused with ALARP and with regulatory-capture arguments, neither of which it concerns.
In practice
- A research council that lets panels of working scientists allocate grants funds work no minister would have chosen and no minister could have justified in advance.
- A hospital trust that lets clinicians set the audit priorities finds them auditing things the board had not thought to ask about.
- Standing
- Frequently confused with ALARP and with regulatory-capture arguments.
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- Rules that restrain power, and advice on using it