§ Sir R. Nugentasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will now make a statement about further provision for university research in agricultural marketing.
§ Mr. SoamesI have decided to offer to King's College, Newcastle, funds for the creation of a Department of Agricultural Marketing, for research and teaching. Initially the cost of this Department —the first Department of Agricultural Marketing in the United Kingdom—will be borne on my Ministry's Vote, but it is expected that it will be financed out of general University income from the beginning of the next Quinquennium in 1967.
I am glad to acknowledge the initiatives of the Committee on the Provincial Agricultural Economics Service, under the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge; of the Agricultural Marketing Development Executive Committee, under my right hon. Friend; and of King's College itself, which is already doing good work in agricultural marketing, particularly the marketing of fatstock and meat.