§ 1. Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the liberation of Malaya and the imminent rehabilitation of the Malayan tin industry, he will now give his approval to the 1943 scheme of the International Tin Research Institute, under which it was 354 proposed that the tin miners should spend approximately£300,000 a year on tin research and which was reduced, at the request of his Department, to a temporary basis of£100,000 a year.
§ The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. George Hall)In view of the uncertainty as to the long-term position of the tin industry, the International Tin Research and Development Council, which controls the Tin Institute, has agreed, subject to confirmation by the Governments concerned, to work on the basis of an annual budget of£100,000 for the five years' period 1945–50. The question of increasing this provision will be considered towards the end of that period, when it is hoped that the Malayan and Netherlands East Indies industries will have recovered from the effects of enemy occupation.