§ 1. Mr. Dalyellasked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science what is the monetary value of the scientific research, carried out in the United Kingdom, financed directly or indirectly by funds from the United States Public Health Department vote.
§ The Parliamentary Secretary for Science (Mr. Denzil Freeth)A figure of 1,521,140 dollars equivalent to £543,000, has been published by the United States Public Health Service as the expenditure 1092 by its National Institutes of Health on research projects in the United Kingdom in their fiscal year 1962.
§ Mr. DalyellIn the light of these considerable figures does not the Minister think that the remarks of his noble Friend in another place about American scientists were somewhat ungracious? Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the Americans are getting rather tired of financing European research and might well, for understandable reasons, divert their funds elsewhere?
§ Mr. FreethThe answer to the first part of the supplementary question is "No, Sir". In answer to the second part, it shows the recognition of the value of research done in this country and the esteem in which our research workers are held by the Americans that they wish to finance work here.