Foot-and-mouth Disease (Research Expenditure)

HC Deb 30 November 1967 vol 755 c144W

Mr. Wingfield Digby

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was spent last year, to the nearest convenient date, on research into the foot-and-mouth disease virus and its transmission.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

At the Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, in the financial year to 31st March, 1967, approximately £452,000 of which approximately £26,000 was capital expenditure.