§ 34 and 35. Commander Purseyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs 133W if he will state the new duties of the hydrologists now to be appointed to the 26 river authorities, the number for which appointments will be available in the first year, and the salary range; and whether existing staff of departmental headquarters and regional offices will be considered together with those of the present river boards;
(2) what new duties of hydrologists cannot be efficiently performed by the present staff of river boards; what training would be necessary for them to undertake this work; and whether, if present staff took the training in the interim period and qualified, they would be upgraded and appointed.
§ Mr. CorfieldIf the Water Resources Bill becomes law, hydrologists employed by river authorities would normally plan and operate schemes for collecting hydro-metric information and would advise the authorities on a policy and programme for water conservation, on the control of abstractions, and on schemes of river regulation and on the forecasting of floods. Their duties would vary from area to area and it is not possible to generalise about the number of hydrologists the authorities may think it right to appoint, or about the field from which they would be recruited and their grading and remuneration when appointed.