§ Mr. Rowlandasked the Minister of Overseas Development what changes have recently been made in the composition of the United Kingdom National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
§ Mr. GreenwoodI have reconstituted the National Commission, in the light of our current needs, following the transfer of responsibility for British relations with U.N.E.S.C.O. from the Department of Education and Science to my Department.
The Commission meets under my chairmanship, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry is its vice-chairman. The other members of the Commission are:—
- Dr. Thomas Balogh, Economic Adviser to the Cabinet.
- Mr. K. E. Berrill, Economist and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
59 - Mr. Humphrey Berkeley, Writer and broadcaster.
- Mr. William Clark, Director, Overseas Development Institute Ltd.
- Professor J. P. Corbett, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sussex.
- Mr. Lionel Elvin, Director, Institute of Education, London.
- Sir Frank Francis, Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum.
- Lord Goodman, Chairman, Arts Council.
- Sir Ronald Gould, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers.
- Professor S. J. Gould, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham.
- Mr. W. F. Houghton, Education Officer, Inner London Education Authority.
- Mr. Paul Johnson, Editor, New Statesman.
- Mr. Jack L. Jones, Assistant Executive Secretary, Transport and General Workers Union.
- Professor Kathleen Jones, Professor of Social Administration and Social Work, University of York.
- Lord Ritchie-Calder, Professor of International Relations, University of Edinburgh.
- Sir William Slater, Past Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council.
- Dame Mary Smieton, United Kingdom Member of the Executive Board of U.N.E.S.C.O.
- Sir Roger Stevens, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds.
- Professor H. W. Thompson, Professor of Chemistry, St. John's College, Oxford.
- Mr. John A. Vaizey, Economist and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
- Professor Glanmor Williams, Professor of History, University College of Swansea.
- Professor Esmond Wright, Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow.
- Mr. Brian W. Young, Director, Nuffield Foundation.
The Commission is helped by a Development Sub-Committee, four Programme Advisory Committees concerned respectively with Education, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Culture, and a Public Relations Committee.