§ 62. Sir R. Russellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what 150W proportion the annual grants made by the Medical Research Council is spent on research involving cell, tissue and organ cultures as an alternative to experiments on laboratory animals; and if he will direct the Council to allocate an increasing proportion each year to that kind of research.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsA number of the projects for which the Medical Research Council make research grants involve the development of cell, tissue and organ culture techniques which can be used as alternatives to the use of laboratory animals, but since this aspect is rarely the only purpose of the research no accurate estimate of the financial effort involved can be made. With regard to the second part of the Question, it would not be right for me to give directions to the Council. The distribution of support over the various fields of medical research is a matter for the scientific judgment of the M.R.C.