§ Mr. Grantasked the Minister of Transport what estimates she will give of the year-by-year expenditure up to 1970 on total public investment in research and development directly identifiable with transport, excluding aircraft, ships and hovercraft, comparable with the figure of £5 million given in paragraph 136 of Command Paper No. 3057.
§ Mrs. CastleParagraph 137 of the White Paper on Transport Policy (Cmnd. 3057) indicates that action to co-ordinate the various transport research programmes is now under way. Until this review is completed it will not be possible to estimate the extent of the additional effort that will be required to meet the objectives laid down in that paragraph.