HC Deb 14 June 1972 vol 838 cc347-8W
Mr. Michael Cocks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the machinery of control and supervision exercised by her Department over the Science Museum and the Museum of Practical Geology, respectively, both of Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7.

Mr. van Straubenzee

The Science Museum is part of the Department of Education and Science. The Geological Museum is part of the Institute of Geological Sciences, a component body of the Natural Environment Research Council, which receives a parliamentary grant-in-aid for which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is responsible.