§ 9. Mr. R. W. Elliottasked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what estimate the Lord President, in his study of the North-East, has made of the value of private investment in industry in the past 10 years in ensuring the area's future prosperity.
§ Mr. Denzil FreethMy noble Friend has made no specific estimate, nor is one practicable in those terms, but he does of course have very much in mind the importance to the region of adequate industrial investment both private and public—and in existing enterprises as well as in new ones.