§ 23. Miss WILKINSONasked the President of the Board of Trade what aid, financial or otherwise, the Government is giving to promote research into the practical application to industry of the science of biochemistry?
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSA considerable amount of biochemical research is conducted by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, particularly in relation to its investigations on the preservation and transport of foodstuffs. The Department also makes grants to a number of co-operative research associations, organised by various industries to investigate their own special problems, whose work is partly of a biochemical nature. As this work is closely linked up with other work not directly biochemical in nature, it is impossible to estimate its cost separately.