§ Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Education, as representing the Minister for Science, in view of the detrimental effect on British scientific progress, what steps he is taking to stop the gradual loss of scientific personnel from the United Kingdom to the United States of America, particularly in view of the number of scientists who have left the Jodrell Bank radio-telescope project.
§ Sir D. EcclesThe general problem of the emigration of scientific personnel has been under consideration for some years by the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and its Manpower Committee. Since 1958 steps have been taken by the Civil Service Commission and the Atomic Energy Authority to recruit British scientists in America for official employment in the United Kingdom and these have met with some success.