HC Deb 15 December 1943 vol 395 cc1560-1W
Major Lyons

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, following the recommendation of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission in the case of the West Indies, he will arrange to set up an East African Co-ordination Research Council, to include representatives of Northern Rhodesia and Nyassaland as well as East Africa?

Colonel Stanley

The general desirability of regional organisation of research is a matter to which the Colonial Research Committee has drawn attention in its Progress Report for 1942–43, which has just been laid before Parliament. The question of providing such co-ordination in East Africa is under consideration, but I regret that I am not at present in a position to make any statement.