Advisory Services (Cost)

HC Deb 02 August 1963 vol 682 cc176-7W

Mr. Prior

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what the cost of the Ministry's advisory services was during each of the last five years.

Mr. Soames

The salaries and travelling and subsistence expenses of the National Agricultural Advisory Service and the Agricultural Land Service for the last two financial years and the associated net expenditure on experimental centres, laboratories, etc., are as follows:

		1961–62	1962–63
N.A.A.S.	…	£3,000,000	£3,312,000
A.L.S.	…	£695,000	£718,000

The figures for previous years for these two services and those of other services are not readily available and I will write to my hon. Friend.