§ Major CARVERasked the Minister of Agriculture what institutions for the promotion of veterinary science exist in the United Kingdom other than the Royal Veterinary College; whether his attention has been called to the danger that the college may have to close down for want of financial support; and whether, to avert this, he is able to offer more help than he has hitherto promised?
§ Dr. ADDISONBesides the Royal Veterinary College, the following institu-1528W tions in Great Britain provide veterinary education: Liverpool University, the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and the Glasgow Veterinary College. In addition, the University Department of Animal Pathology at Cambridge, the Ministry of Agriculture's Veterinary Laboratory at Weybridge, and the station of the Scottish Animal Diseases Research Association, near Edinburgh, exist for the purpose of research in animal diseases. I am fully acquainted with the financial position of the Royal Veterinary College. As the hon. and gallant Member is no doubt aware, the Government have offered to the college on certain conditions a grant of £150,000 towards a scheme of reconstruction costing £250,000, and are further prepared to contemplate an increase of the present maintenance grant when the reconstruction is completed. I sincerely trust that, with the help which the college may be able to obtain from other sources, these grants will be sufficient to avert the closing down of the college, an event which I should deeply deplore.