§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will compare the number of people employed in each State corporation for which he has responsibility at the date of nationalisation and at the most recent date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. William RodgersSince the nationalisation of the surface transport industries on 1st January 1948 there have been a number of organisational changes. The following table compares the number of people employed in the existing corporations on the dates they were set up and on 31st December 1977 although because of the above changes the figures are not strictly comparable.
letter to the Code of Practice Committee of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry regarding promotional clinical trials in general practice and of any reply he receives.
§ Mr. MoyleI have not written such a letter on this matter. I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, South (Mr. Pavitt) on 22nd March.—[Vol. 946, c.603–4.] The general question of general practitioner trials has been raised in discussion between officials of my Department and ABPI officials and will probably be pursued in this way.
I will keep the House informed of the outcome of these discussions.