§ Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total cost in the current year, respectively, of the Army Personnel Research Establishment at Farnborough, the Royal Naval Physiological Laboratory at Alverstoke and the Stores and Clothing Research and Development Establishment at Colchester.
§ Mr. John MorrisAs I explained in my reply to the right hon. Member for Harrogate (Mr. Ramsden) on 13th February, 1969, it is not the practice to publish a breakdown of costs by establishments.—[Vol. 777, c.374.]
§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will give details of his current examination of running the defence research establishments more economically;
(2) what plans he has for transferring to industry development work now carried out in the defence research establishments.
§ Mr. John MorrisI cannot at this stage give any further details of the studies referred to in paragraph 8 of Chapter VI of the Statement on the Defence Estimates, 1969 (Cmnd. 3927). These studies will necessarily take some time to complete.