HC Deb 25 February 1992 vol 204 c465W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the future of British participation in the Institute Laue Langevin at Grenoble.

Mr. Alan Howarth

Further to my answer to the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) on 28 November 1991,Official Report, column 590, about the review by the Science and Engineering Research Council of neutron science, formal notice was given on 16 December 1991 of the United Kingdom's intention to terminate the present Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) convention with effect from 1 January 1994, and of our wish to replace it with a new convention from that date. Discussions on this are now in progress with French and German partners in ILL.

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