§ 50. Mr. Skeffingtonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action Her Majesty's Government propose to take in connection with the Report of the. Committee on the Problem of Noise presented in July 1963.
§ Mr. HoggGovernment Departments concerned are pursuing the lines of action indicted in the statement I made in another place on 2nd July last. Responsibility for appropriate Government action lies with individual Ministers who 173W are consulting where necessary with one another, with local authorities and with industry.
My Department, for example, has discussed the problem of noise with the Middlesex Local Education Authority and has approved the construction of an experimental school near London Airport, with special protection against noise. The research on the effects of industrial noise on the hearing of workers, jointly undertaken by the Medical Research Council and the National Physical Laboratory, is well under way. Additional research, as well as advisory work, has been undertaken by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.