§ 61. Mr. Skeffingtonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what action has been taken in connection with paragraphs 49 and 50 of chapter 10 of the Zuckerman Report on the organisation of Government science.
§ Mr. BarberThese recommendations have been fully considered in the Interdepartmental Scientific Panel.
There are already well over 500 posts in the scientific officer class established at the headquarters of the employing Departments for scientific and general administration, and the use of scientists on this type of work is being extended. The Committee's recommendations are acceptable, though experience tends to produce little evidence that any significant number of scientists employed 133W in the Civil Service who have a marked capacity for administrative work wish to be employed in this way.