HC Deb 22 March 1984 vol 56 cc539-40W

Proposed terms of reference

Having regard to the long-term health of British science and engineering research and to the Common Criteria* for the support enunciated by the Advisory Board for the Research Councils in its Second Report, 1974–75:

  1. (i) to review UK participation in the study of high-energy particle physics, with particular reference to that necessarily carried out under international 540 auspices;
  2. (ii) to consider possible future involvement, the role and extent of international collaboration, and the implications of reallocation of the resources in whole or in part to other areas of science;
  3. (iii) to report to the Chairman of the ABRC and the Chairman of the SERC.

*see Annex.

Membership

Sir John Kendrew FRS will chair the Review Group. The following people have agreed to be members of the Group:—Sir Douglas Hague; Sir Jack Lewis FRS; Professor K. Pounds FRS; Sir Francis Tombs. There may be one or two more members. The Chairman has also invited Dr. Llewellyn-Smith FRS to act as adviser to the Group.