§ 10. Mr. L. Thomasasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what means the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has for assessing the economic value of research undertaken at the public expense or for selecting research programmes likely to be of most benefit to the national economy.
§ Mr. H. NichollsThe Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has recently set up an Economics Committee to advise it on the economic aspects of its scientific research policy and on the probable economic value of particular researches. The Chairman of the Committee is Professor E. A. G. Robinson, Professor of Economics at Cambridge.