§ Mr. J. H. Osbornasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the divisions of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research which have now been transferred to his Department; where they are now located; what is the respective number of the civil servants involved; and if the transfer is complete.
§ Mr. CroslandThe departments of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research which were transferred to my Department on 1st April, 1965, their present location and the numbers of the40W civil service staff involved are as follows:
Department Number of staff Location Overseas Liaison Group. 17 London (Curzon Street House). Office for Scientific and Technical Information. 7 London (State House, Holborn). National Lending Library for Science and Technology. 153 Boston Spa, Yorks. Staff on loan to the Commonwealth Scientific Liaison Offices. 9 London (Africa House, Strand). Scientific Liaison Overseas. 19 Bonn, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo, Washington. 205 The following departments were also transferred temporarily to my Department on 1st April, 1965. They will be transferred to the Natural Environment Research Council which it is proposed should be established in June.
Department Number of staff Location Geological Survey and Museum. 373 London (South Kensington), Edinburgh, Leeds and Northern Ireland. Hydrology Unit of the Hydraulics Research Station. 9 Wallingford, Berks. 382 Otherwise the transfer is complete.