§ Mrs. WiseTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what discussions her Department has had with(a) the Association of University Teachers, (b) the Management, Science and Finance Union, (c) the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, ( d) the Association of Department of Health Funded Research Workers, (e) the National and Local Government Officers Association and (f) any other relevant organisations, about the contractual conditions of staff it funds through research units and research project grants;
(2) what progress her Department is making in its review of research units; and when it will announce its conclusions about whether it will continue to fund research units;
(3) if she will list the research units funded by her Department and give for each (a) the numbers of core staff funded by her Department in post on 1 June, (b) the numbers of project staff funded by her Department in post on 1 June, (c) the date on which the unit's contract expires and ( d) when the unit was last reviewed by the Director of Research and Development or his predecessor the Chief Scientist, together with the decisions made about future funding of the unit in the light of this review.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe director of research and development, Professor Michael Peckham, last year commissioned an independent review of the 13 research units currently funded by the Department. The details requested on each of these units are shown in the table.
The final report of the review team has just been received. We shall consider carefully the report's conclusions and recommendations and will make the report available in due course. A copy will be placed in the Library. An announcement will be made in the autumn.
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