HL Deb 10 April 1974 vol 350 c1364WA
LORD HAWKE

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will encourage research to find a commercial use for Sargassum muticum or Japanese seaweed now threatening our South Coast.

LORD BESWICK

I would be glad to arrange for appropriate consideration to be given to specific proposals for research directed to a commercial use in this, as in other fields. Such proposals would need to be considered against the broad priorities that are being established by the appropriate Research Requirements Board machinery.