§ Mr. Stokesasked the Minister of Supply whether he will arrange for at least one person with scientific qualifications to be appointed to the Inter-Departmental Commitee on Salvage, with the object of providing useful advice on the conversion and utilisation of waste matter in the light of recent scientific and technical developments?
§ Mr. Harold MacmillanThe Inter-Departmental Committee on Salvage at their meeting on 5th September appointed as technical adviser Mr. J. C. Dawes, O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., who for many years has been Public Cleansing and Salvage Inspector in the Ministry of Health. Mr. Dawes, who was chief technical adviser to the National Salvage Council in the last war, is specially qualified to provide useful advice on the conversion and utilisation of waste matter. In addition, the services of the Director of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Supply are available to this Committee.