PA Management Consultants

HC Deb 13 July 1993 vol 228 cc429-30W

Mr. Cousins

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 16 June,Official Report, columns 605–6, if he will place in the Library the reports by PA Management Consultants on (a) United States biotechnology, (b) the feasibility study—"Factory of the Future", (c) the update of the report on manufacturing into the 1990s, (d) emerging generic technologies, (e) the future of Warren Spring Laboratory and (f) the Warren Spring investigation.

Mr. Eggar

It is not my intention to publish all of the reports in question. The reports which I have arranged to be placed in the Library are (a) United States biotechnology and (c) the update on the report on manufacturing into the 1990's which is due for publication in July. Work has only recently begun on (b) the feasibility study—Factory of the Future. The form of the report to be published on (d) emerging generic technologies, has yet to be decided although a related study "Research Foresight and the Exploitation of the Science Base" published in March 1993 is available from HMSO. With regard to the studies on the Warren Spring Laboratory a copy of the report by PA consultancy has been placed in the Library.