HC Deb 20 February 1945 vol 408 cc650-1W
Mr. Salt

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what is the present cost of the Annual Reports of the Medical Research Council, the Department of Scien- tific and Industrial Research and the Agricultural Research Council; and what have been the approximate sales of these documents in recent years.

Mr. Peake

No reports have been published for these Departments for the war years. The price of the Medical Research Council Report for the year 1938–39 was 3s. and the sales 854 copies; the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Report for 1937–38 was 3s. and sales 1,132 copies; the Agricultural Research Council Report for the period October, 1935-September, 1937, was 5s. 6d. and the sales 398 copies.