§ Dr. Ernest A. Daviesasked the Minister of Overseas Development, what progress he has made in setting up the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine at Edinburgh University, mentioned in para- 286W graph 229 of Command Paper No. 3180, entitled Overseas Development: the Work in Hand.
§ Mr. BottomleyFollowing discussions with Edinburgh University, I intend to provide a grant of up to £210,000 in the five year period up to March, 1972 for the erection, furnishing and equipping of a building adjacent to the University's existing Veterinary Field Station outside Edinburgh to provide a Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine. An Agreement with Edinburgh University, on the conditions under which the Centre will be established and managed, has recently been concluded. I intend also to provide up to £30,000 per year within the five year period for the recurrent costs of staffing and maintaining the Centre. Provision will be taken in the estimates of my Department accordingly.