HC Deb 22 March 1971 vol 814 cc29-30
35. Mr. Judd

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he plans to visit the International Research and Development Centre in Canada.

Mr. Wood

I have no plans at present to do so.

Mr. Judd

In view of the desperate employment crisis in the developing countries and the urgent need for research into their unique economic and social problems, will the right hon. Gentleman agree that the establishment of this centre by the Canadian Government last year was greatly welcomed? Do Her Majesty's Government have similar plans?

Mr. Wood

I feel that our position and that of the Canadian Government in this respect are not comparable. I welcome the setting up of the centre in Canada, and I shall view with great interest what it does, but we have, as the hon. Gentleman knows, a number of connections with the universities and other bodies, including the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, which are making the kind of study which I think he has in mind.