§ LORD DYNEVORasked Her Majesty's Government whether they will make a statement about the future of the Low Temperature Research Station, the Ditton Laboratory and the Pest Infestation 806WA Laboratory of the new Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (VISCOUNT HAILSHAM)Acting on the advice of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Agricultural Research Council, Her Majesty's Government have decided that the responsibility for the Low Temperature Research Station (at Cambridge), the Ditton Laboratory (at Larkfield, Kent) and the Pest Infestation Laboratory (at Slough) will be transferred from 1st July, 1959, from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to the Agricultural Research Council. The two Councils consider that it is in the interests of the work for all Government research on food other than fish to come under one authority. Arrangements have been made to safeguard the interests of the staff at present serving in the three laboratories concerned.
House adjourned at eighteen minutes before six o'clock.