§ Mr. Spellerasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will arrange for a list to be published detailing the 96W and development has been on pure or lone research, applied research, defence and civil research, indicating how the position has changed in each of the previous five years, 10 years and 15 years.
§ Mr. WakehamInformation cannot be supplied in the precise form requested. The following table gives figures for the years where the information is available, and using such breakdown as is available.
telecommunications attachments which have been approved by British Telecom, together with the number of items approved and not approved after test.
§ Mr. WakehamIn accordance with Section 16(2)(c)of the British Telecommunications Act 1981, the Secretary of State has authorised British Telecommunications to approve subscribers' apparatus. This authorisation requires the corporation to maintain a register of its approvals, which I understand the public will be able to inspect at the offices of area telephone managers. The complexity of this list—it already includes some 11,000 items—and the requirement for frequent amendment as new approvals are given, make publication impracticable.
Information about numbers of items not approved after test is a matter for the corporation.